More Selection Delimiters

[BootBlock]

Would it be possible to not select the $ symbol when using Shift+Ctrl+[Arrow Key] to select PHP code?

Chances are the user (well, me, anyway) wants to change the variable name itself and not remove the entire variable along with its $ identifier, and without having to type the $ symbol again.

If this could be extended to also delimiting on the \ character - again, the user probably wants to change just the trailing namespace as opposed to changing/removing the entire namespace - that would be awesome!

[Aivars]

Long time ago $ was a delimiter but majority of our users wanted it to be included in the selection, it was an extremely popular request.

You can customize this manually for yourself:
1) Go to menu Options -> Preferences -> Text Editor -> Colors -> PHP -> Advanced Tools -> Custom Highlighter Scripts
2) Save Originla Script to some location
3) Open and edit the saved script. Find Delimiters=... line and add $ to the list. Save the file
4) Go back to menu Options -> Preferences -> Text Editor -> Colors -> PHP -> Advanced Tools -> Custom Highlighter Scripts and select your modified script file.

Note that this might affect Auto-Complete, too.

[BootBlock]

Thanks for the response!

Really surprised that people wanted $ and \ removed as delimiters but hey, I've added them back now - so that's awesome

[Aivars]

We are planning to get rid of \ as delimiters soon, they cause just too many problems. We'll work around the namespaces in some way. Having \ as namespace delimiter was a strange decision from PHP developers and now we have to deal with it somehow