microsoft / microsoft/terminal
More Unicode-savvy wordDelimiters
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
"wordDelimiter" lists a couple of stop characters, such as ASCII quotation mark ", apostrophe ', hyphen/minus - and such.
However, special Unicode quotation marks like “, ”, apostrophes like ’ dashes –, —, box drawing characters, non-breaking spaces and so on an so forth remain word characters (selected on a double click) which is most likely not the best behavior, and adding such characters one by one to the set as the user encounters them is cumbersome.
Proposed technical implementation details
I think the default behavior should be based on Unicode character categories. On top of this there could be a way to add/remove certain characters to/from the set as exceptions. (Maybe even a way to add/remove entire character categories at once, although that might be an overkill.)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or specific entry points. Start by locating the existing wordDelimiter behavior and reviewing Unicode character categories; done should include category-based delimiter handling plus a defined way to add or remove exception characters.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100