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Normally when I double-click a word in Textpad it won't select the trailing hyphen (unless it's a keyword defined in syntax highlighting), but today that behaviour changed for some reason.

For example, if the text is "$obj->property" and I double-click on "obj", I want it to only highlight "obj" but it's now highlighting "obj-".

This is only happening in some document classes and not in others. I haven't changed any of my syntax files recently so I have no idea why it just started acting like this today. Is it possible that a Windows update would affect that behaviour?

Is there a hyphen in
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Syntax | Other characters in words
?

If so, remove it.

No, I only have an underscore there.

Look in the syntax files for the document classes in which this is happening. Do they have any keywords that contain hyphens?

From the help, under How To... | Customize Settings | Syntax Highlighting:

When selecting and stepping over words, the default set of characters in a word are letters, numbers and those used in keywords in the syntax definition file. If you need to include any others, such as a hyphen, type them in the box labelled "Other characters in words".

The issue fixed itself for a brief time without me changing anything, but is now happening again.

There are keywords with hyphens in my syntax file, however this never caused an issue before.