notepad++ select hyphenated text

Question

I could\'nt find a solution to a problem that has been hindering the use of notepad++.

When you double click text to highlight that text and others like it,

Answer 1

2018

I tried with the published solutions but when I move to another file I have to run the script again every time. So I did this way, in the menu:

Settings > Preferences > Delimiter

select:

• Add you character as part of word

insert hyphen:

-

and it worked.

Answer 2

I met with the same problem when editing Lisp/Scheme source codes with Notepad++.

The cure lies in the underlying Scintilla library (SciLexer.dll).

I've tried in a "blunt" way -- hack the code and rebuild SciLexer.dll.
Note the '-' added to the following code

CharClassify.cxx

void CharClassify::SetDefaultCharClasses(bool includeWordClass) {
    // Initialize all char classes to default values
    for (int ch = 0; ch < 256; ch++) {
        if (ch == '\r' || ch == '\n')
            charClass[ch] = ccNewLine;
        else if (ch < 0x20 || ch == ' ')
            charClass[ch] = ccSpace;
        else if (includeWordClass && (ch >= 0x80 || isalnum(ch) || ch == '_' || ch == '-'))
            charClass[ch] = ccWord;
        else
            charClass[ch] = ccPunctuation;
    }
}

Or, the "smart" way, as mentioned at ScintillaDoc.html

SCI_SETWORDCHARS(<unused>, const char *characters)

Scintilla has several functions that operate on words, which are defined to be contiguous sequences of characters from a particular set of characters. This message defines which characters are members of that set. The character sets are set to default values before processing this function. For example, if you don't allow '_' in your set of characters use: SCI_SETWORDCHARS(0,abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789");

Answer 3

I don't know that option in Notepad++ yet. Since, you've asked about any other text editor that does so, I would recommend you to use Sublime Text. It's a really cool text editor with lots of smart features. I bet you'll love it. By default, it does not treat the hyphenated words as a single word. But it's way too easy to customize the setting for that. All you need to do is go to 'Preference-> Setting-Default', where you'll find the following setting:

"word_separators": "./\\()\"'-:,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",

From there, just remove the hyphen and we're done!

Answer 4

If you don't have admin rights and no Plugin Mgr, you can install most plugins by downloading a dll/zip file and saving the dll to the 'plugins' sub-folder under your npp install. Then restart npp.

Answer 5

A workaround is to:

• In the Find window, set the text to find to a space

• In the Shortcut Mapper (Main Menu section) assign "Find Next" to Ctrl+Right and "Find Previous" to Ctrl+Left

Now, so long as the search text is only a space, it will effectively be the only delimiter. If you need other delimiters, for instance comma and period, set the Find text to [ ,.].

Answer 6

http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/1290590/thread/39ba5cd8/

Install Npp_Exec plugin and copy the string from this thread adding the signs you want Npp considers as part of a word.