No 'Select-by-word characters' property

[Tamas Papp]

The 'Select-by-word characters' property has been disappeared a few updated ago.
If I remember correctly in Utopic it was there, but now in Vivid it is not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.14.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Dec 10 19:11:23 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-23 (627 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130321)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2013-05-03 (585 days ago)

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Unfortunately mainstream gnome-terminal removed this feature in 3.14. See e.g.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727743
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730632

[Tamas Papp (tomposmiko)]

OMG

Are you aware of a usable alternative?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Nope, sorry, other than patching the source. I'll give it another try to convince the main author.

[Gediminas Paulauskas (menesis)]

Word char settings have been resurrected in gnome-terminal 3.16 / vte 0.40

I have compiled vte2.91 version 0.40 and colon (:) is no longer a word char, as was set before.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

wily contains 3.16.2

[Chris West (faux)]

To restore the pre-wily behaviour, you need to use dconf, as per:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730632#c33

Note that the use of colons there is /crazy/. Yes, there is :/: in there.

1) edit -> profile preferences -> the General tab on your profile has its Profile ID, e.g. b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9
2) check you've got the syntax right with:

$ dconf list /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/
foreground-color
visible-name
palette
use-system-font
...

If it returns nothing, you've got it wrong; try again.

3) dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/word-char-exceptions '@ms "-,.;/?%&#_=+@~·:"'

... specifically, this has ":" in, which makes it select URLs like I expect. (http://example.com doesn't select "//example.com").

[Darko Veberic (darko-veberic-kit)]

please bring back explicit setting

[vector090 (vector090)]

This setting is not used frequently but could be important especially for programmers, please bring it back.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

There's no UI, but a hidden setting is available. See above for the link.

[jimav (james-avera)]

Ok, I'll say it very explicitly: Please bring back explicit setting WITH GUI SUPPORT.

Users should not have to hack around with dcomf for something like this.