Open Bug 607049 Opened 15 years ago Updated 5 years ago

Add a way to control word-break characters

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: sheppy, Unassigned)

Details

Currently, there's no way to tell the editor what characters constitute a word break. When editing text that includes code, for example, this can be particularly annoying, since the editor treats the underscore "_" as a word break, even though in code it is not one. It would be nice to have a way to customize the set of characters considered to be word breaks.
By "a way" do you mean a pref or a web-page accessible API? This will probably be possible by modifying the behavior of nsTextFrame::PeekOffsetWord, but I'm not sure what the best way to customize this behavior is.
Component: Editor → Selection
QA Contact: editor → selection
I'd say an API. Having this available as a pref would be nice, but it may vary from site to site which characters you want to be word breaks. Maybe ideally there would be a pref for the default word break characters with support for sites customizing them through an API.

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: -- → P5
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