Settings > Preferences > Delimiters > ☐ Add your character as part of word is the option which influences what characters can be grabbed by the double-click action.
Did you read the online manual about the specific requirements of this tab? Try looking at this section of the manual. Ver 8.2 and better will allow what you need, but you must define it correctly.
@pnedev ,
Thanks !!! Wow, what a difference. I had no idea there was a ComparePlus. It works great. I teach a coding class, and it makes grading and correcting students assignments a whole lot easier. Notepad ++ is an awesome product.
Thanks again,
Mark
You have made what appears to be a feature request. Please see our Feature Request FAQ
As a fellow user of Notepad++, I would say: I have never had a need for such a complicated search. But if you were to submit an official feature request and it were implemented, it would be fine with me.
We do not need a list of additional tools which hack the registry in some form or another (especially when those link to tools that were designed in the WinXP era, so will not work on Windows 11 for the same reason that the Notepad++ registry settings does not work on Windows 11).
There’s an option to change how many characters you have to type before the autocompletion appears: Settings > Preferences > Auto-completion > From Nth character. So if you want to not autocomplete on X characters or less, then set that initial typing to X+1.
(If you want it to only show you length>X words, but start when you’ve only typed a couple characters, sorry, that feature doesn’t exist. We have a FAQ on where to make feature requests.)