double left click on text (xterm and elsewhere) questions

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 04:33:53PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> OK, I have moved from using CentOS (4,5,6) to Ubuntu 18.04 and have things 
> *mostly* behaving the way I want.  There is still one *anoying* difference: 
> the way text selection works.  When I was running CentOS, double left click on 
> any text area (xterms, Firefox, etc.) it highlighted/selected a "word", 
> defined as a solid block of alphanums, with a *few* other charactors 
> (underscore, and maybe a few others).  Under Ubuntu it seems to have a broader 
> definiation of "word".  Where is this defined?  What is different with Ubuntu 
> from CentOS?
> 
For terminal windows it's in the terminal preferences I think.  It
*is* in terminal preferences on xubuntu but I'm not quite sure if it's
the same in Ubuntu.

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Chris Green