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    • Thomas ZitoT
      Thomas Zito
      last edited by

      I’m running Notepad++ v8.7.4 (32 bit) on Windows 10.

      If I do C-<double-left-mousebutton>, notepad++ ignores whitespace but not delimiter.

      C-<left-mousebutton> is also used to begin a multicaret

      You can see my issue here, if i try to create a multiselect using Ctrl key and double left click, it will create the new caret, begin selecting, but ignore whitespace.

      Well, I could probably figure this out myself but I don’t want to spend an hour on this. I’m betting someone already has a solution that takes 60 seconds.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Thomas Zito
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        I’m not 100% sure whether I’ve understood your problem.

        I was going to ask for a screenshot of your Preferences > Delimiter page, wondering if maybe you had something added to your list of characters… but then I was reminded of the Delimiter selection settings (Ctrl + Mouse double click), which I forget about under most circumstances.

        So with the example text

        one two three
        four five six
        blah(seven eight nine)
        

        if I Ctrl+DoubleClick on one then five then eight, I get one and five and seven eight nine selected. Based on being reminded of the existing of the special meaning for inside-delimiter Ctrl+DoubleClick, that is now my expectation. But I’m wondering if you were hoping for just one and five and eight in that situation. If so, you would have to “defeat” the Delimiter selection settings, by changing the open and close delimiters to something else (or to nothing).

        Examples:

        Default:
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        With no selection-delimiters:
        5ce5d936-0a72-485f-a6ca-090f85935023-image.png

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