Double-clicking to select text in an editor should respect casing (as developers see casing)

[estaylorco]

• VSCode Version: 1.10.2
• OS Version: OS X (El Capitan) 10.11.6
• Language: Agnostic

Consider the following text samples:

1. messageQueue (camel)
2. message-queue (kabob)
3. MessageQueue (Pascal)
4. message_queue (C)

As it stands now, when I double-click text formatted as #2 above, "words" within the text select independently of the rest of the text, as we would expect (the hyphen provides a natural breaking point).

But that doesn't happen in the caseS of #1 , #3, and #4. Yet, from a developer's perspective, there's no difference really.

It would be nice if there were a setting that would allow us to treat cased words within text (with no intervening whitespace) as separate "words". In the case of #1 above, for example, double-clicking within "Queue" would select just Queue, etc. Additionally, in a manner similar to clicking in Microsoft Word, if we triple-click, then the entire text would be selected without respect to casing.

I seem to recall being able to do this years ago in Visual Studio (though I think we had to have the ReSharper extension).

Thank you for your consideration...and for a great job!

Eric

[ramya-rao-a]

You can add _ to the editor.wordSeparators setting for your 4th case to work.

For the other 2 cases, I'll leave it to @alexandrudima to comment

[ramya-rao-a]

Also see #541 and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ow.vscode-subword-navigation

[estaylorco]

@ramya-rao-a Thanks for the head-up on editor.wordSeparators. Also, the link you gave to the subword navigation plug-in is useful. I just installed it.

But this does need to be tied in to double-clicking as well, not just keyboarding (at least so far as selection goes.

Thanks, again!

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