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bug#60080: 28.2; Double-click selection cannot be customized
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#60080: 28.2; Double-click selection cannot be customized |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:33:18 +0200 |
> From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:40:22 -0500
>
> I'd like to customize Emacs such that when I double-click on a word,
> the entire enclosing symbol is selected. In other words, it should
> behave more like the latter case of double-clicking on a character with
> symbol syntax.
Does the patch below do what you want?
If it does, we could provide this as an optional behavior, conditioned
by some new user option.
diff --git a/lisp/mouse.el b/lisp/mouse.el
index f72ab4f..ced7a92 100644
--- a/lisp/mouse.el
+++ b/lisp/mouse.el
@@ -1803,7 +1803,11 @@ mouse-skip-word
If DIR is positive skip forward; if negative, skip backward."
(let* ((char (following-char))
(syntax (char-to-string (char-syntax char))))
- (cond ((string= syntax "w")
+ (cond ((bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol)
+ (goto-char (if (< dir 0)
+ (car (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol))
+ (cdr (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol)))))
+ ((string= syntax "w")
;; Here, we can't use skip-syntax-forward/backward because
;; they don't pay attention to word-separating-categories,
;; and thus they will skip over a true word boundary. So,