mark up a word with underscore

[goran_schwarz]

How do I select or mark a word by double click on a word with _ in the word

I just want the editor to recognize underscore to be part of the word
so by clicking on the word xxx_yyy the whole word "xxx_yyy" should be highligted so I can copy/delete it

Surly there must be a way:
textarea.setValidCharsInWords('_', '-') or similar

/Goran

[robert]

Yes, word selection could probably be a little friendlier since underscores are pretty common while programming. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to install a custom SelectWordAction into the text area's ActionMap. The built-in one creates a BeginWordAction and an EndWordAction as private fields, uses them to find the start and end of the word, and selects the range. You could either extend RSyntaxTextAreaEidtorKit.SelectWordAction, overriding createActions() to set "start" and "end" to Actions that allowed "_" as word chars, or write your own SelectWordAction from scratch (either one is probably the same amount of work). Something like this (untested):

java code:

Action a = new MySelectWordAction();
textArea.getActionMap().put(RTextAreaEditorKit.selectWordAction, a);