Per-profile wordCharacters #3078
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Area-Settings
Issues related to settings and customizability, for console or terminal
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It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design.
Product-Terminal
The new Windows Terminal.
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Description of the new feature/enhancement
"wordDelimiters" is a global config option rather than a per-profile one, although there's nothing in this option that inherently has to make it a global one.
In gnome-terminal we had quite a lot of debates around which character should be included and which not. The biggest debate was around
:
. Folks working with URLs or timestamps want colons to be word characters. Folks working with e.g.grep
or compiler outputs (such asfilename:matching_content
orfilename:line_number
want the colon to be a stop character.I can easily imagine that some users would prefer to have different profiles with different double click behaviors, depending on the kind of task they're working on.
Could you guys consider moving it to a per-profile option? Although then it's a bit of maintenance burden when someone wants to update the set and has to do for all the profiles. Feel free to close this bug if it was a deliberate choice from you to make it global.
(On a side note, the same question could also be asked for "copyOnSelect" I guess...?? I'm not sure about that, my gut feelings tell me it's better to have an overall consistent experience here, just as you don't want to have different "keybindings" per profile, but again, these are just feelings.)
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