Template Accelerators - Keywords beginning with @ and other special chars

Submitted by WarrickF on Thursday, 1 May, 2008 - 13:39

Hi all, I'm having a problem setting up Keywords in Accelerator that begin with "@" and other special chars like "<". If I setup an accelerator called Test - all is good, if I name my accelerator @Test it does not work. The help says .... The plugin searches for the keyword from the current caret position in the textarea backwards to first whitespace character. However is seem like it only searches backward for char 1..9,a..z,A..Z Is this a bug or is there some workaround like escaping the char somehow (which I've tried)? Thanks Warrick

Buffer-Local Property "noWordSep"

by Robert Schwenn on Thu, 01/05/2008 - 21:28

It turns out that the help seems not to be correct. It should be written "searches ... backwards to the beginning of the word (resp. the first non-word character)".

A "word" is a string that contains only alphanumeric characters (0-9 and a-Z) and also configured "Extra Word Characters" - see What's a Word . Configuring is done via "Global Options - Editing - Extra Word Characters".

In addition "Extra Word Characters" can be set via the Buffer-Local Property "noWordSep". That means, if You place the string ":noWordSep=@:" in the first or last 10 lines of a buffer, the "@" character will be a word character for this buffer - see Buffer-Local Properties .

Robert

Thanks Robert - that's very h

by WarrickF on Fri, 02/05/2008 - 14:35

Thanks Robert - that's very helpful. I think there must be something else going on though because:

- Tried adding the ":noWordSep=@:" to the local buffer and the search still stops short of the character.

- I added @ as an extra word character to my global settings and the search still stops short of the character.

- I tried restarting etc. to make sure it wasn't some form of cache, but that didn't seem to help either.

Your answer seemed very logical though, so I'm wondering if the plugin doesn't have this hard coded somehow, which ultimately ignored the word definition?

Tested with @

by Robert Schwenn on Fri, 02/05/2008 - 15:01

I tested the behavior with "@" before I wrote my last comment. It works perfectly. I just tested it again.

What versions are You using? I use:

jEdit 4.3pre14
Templates plugin 4.1.1
SUN JRE 1.6.0_05
Windows XP SP2

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