Double clicking on a path doesn't highlight "~"

Confirmed. Still exists in lxterminal 0.1.9-0ubuntu3 in Lubuntu Natty 11.04 Alpha 3.

Gnome Terminal highlights the leading ~ but lxterminal does not.

Test run:

  ls ~/.config
  # Double click on the 'n' in 'config' in the above command
  # Note what gets highlighted

Note: terminator also does not highlight the leading tilde. xterm does highlight it.

This looks like just a matter of what the default set of word selection characters is.

CODE:

In src/settings.c line 124 we find:

  setting->word_selection_characters = g_strdup("-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&#:_");

Adding a ~ to the end of this string changes the default to include ~ .

WORKAROUND:

Users can change this preference themselves, by clicking on
Edit -> Preferences and then on the Advanced tab, and then typing ~ as the last character in the "Select-by-word characters" field and then clicking the "OK" button.

This setting is remembered across reboots, so a user would only need to do this once to have the ~ always included in double-clicked selections in future.

One line patch to add ~ to default set of word delection chars is attached. Patch generated using git format-patch.

Fixed in upstream lxterminal git commit 04809ea8

This bug was fixed in the package lxterminal - 0.1.10-0ubuntu1

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lxterminal (0.1.10-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
   - Fix double clicking on a path doesn't highlight "~" (LP: #720758)
  * debian/patches:
   - 01-deprecated-vte-API.patch: Remove, merged upstream.
   - 02-default-transparency.patch: Remove, merged upstream.
   - 80_translations.patch: Remove, merged upstream.
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:41:07 +0200