notepad++ select hyphenated text

Question

I could\'nt find a solution to a problem that has been hindering the use of notepad++.

When you double click text to highlight that text and others like it,

Answer 1

A workaround is to:

• In the Find window, set the text to find to a space

• In the Shortcut Mapper (Main Menu section) assign "Find Next" to Ctrl+Right and "Find Previous" to Ctrl+Left

Now, so long as the search text is only a space, it will effectively be the only delimiter. If you need other delimiters, for instance comma and period, set the Find text to [ ,.].