In Sublime Text 2, consider hyphen as part of word

Question

How can I have a double-click on a word which contains a hyphen (dash) in Sublime Text 2 select the entire word, not just one part of the word delimited by the hyphen?

Answer 1

Click settings -> default settings, locate the "word_separators" key and delete the hyphen from the character set, re-save.

Answer 2

As @Nate Pinchot stated, it's better to add the "word_separators" key to the User Settings. In case of updating Sublime Text the changes in Default Settings will be reset.

Go to Preferences > Settings ̶ Users and add between the outermost {} brackets:

// Characters that are considered to separate words, here without hyphen
"word_separators": "/\\()\"':,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",

Don't forget about the comma at the end if it's not the only or last key added.

Answer 3

As @Intentss mentioned (i don't want it lost in the comments), if you only want to modify this behaviour for a specific file type:

Preferences > Settings - More > Syntax Specific - User.

or in my case

Preferences > Settings - Syntax Specific

and then edit the user version that shows up:

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