The quote-around-spaces works for keywords and folding-in-code-2, but in my experiments today, I couldn’t get it to work in folding-in-code-1 or comment-line or operators or delimiters. ((EOL)) is the only fancy escape… well, except for enclosing a term in quotes: 'key word' will match key word but not key other word You cannot do that with any of the options in the Preferences dialog UDL is controlled via the UDL dialog/panel and that’s it.Īs far as UDL syntax goes: no, there is no ((SPACE)). If you couldn’t think of other ways to manually select/mark digits: use the Search > Mark ( Ctrl+M) and use a regular expression to manually mark all strings of digits.īut given your focus on UDL in the rest of your question, I wonder if you are really just trying to change UDL behavior. I wasn’t sure if that was tried as a way to change the behavior of the UDL, or if that “match whole word only” was meant to affect something else other than manually selecting text and having it highlight all other text that matches the selection. Preferences>Highlighting>Smart Highlighting only affects what is shown when you manually select a piece of text: if you select 314159 here, then it will look like: Anyīut that will only show you exactly the digits that are currently selected – so it finds the digits of pi, but not the digits of e, since the digits of pi are the ones I had selected. I have already tried toggling the setting “Match whole words only”

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