"Match whole words" does not accept underscores in

melkov · Post by **melkov** » Fri May 12, 2017 9:37 am

Most programming languages, especially C++, treat underscores as correct symbol of an identifier.

However, while searching for an identifier with underscore, "Match whole words" flag is disabled, bringing some frustration.

I see 3 ways to fix this problem:
A) add '_' to the fixed list of word characters unconditionally
B) add '_' to the list of word characters via (per-document-class) some flag
C) treat 'whole words' flag more like grep does, i.e. make it work even when search string contains some non-word characters

Either way is OK for me, please do something

Post by **MudGuard** » Fri May 12, 2017 5:55 pm

use

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\b[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\b

as regex to find whole words including underscores

melkov · Post by **melkov** » Sat May 20, 2017 7:37 am

I do not need to find all words, I need to skip over all the places where some specific word is written. For example:
1) Double-click some identifier
2) F3, F3, F3 ...

Using regular expressions and manually adding \b works, however, this is still inconvenient.

melkov · Post by **melkov** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:34 am

I see that this feature has been implemented in Textpad 8.
Thanks!