Select hyphenated word with double-click - windows

Question

UPDATE: Per the recommendation below, here's specifically what I'd like to do: If I double-click the mouse cursor anywhere from the "b" to the "n" of "blue-green", I want all of the word "blue-green" should be highlighted. How can this be done? Currently, depending on where you click, it treats "blue-green" as three separate character strings. So, if you double click between the "b" and "e" of "blue" it highlights only "blue" and not "-green." If you double-click the hyphen, it highlights the hyphen alone. And if you double-click between the "g" and "n" of "green" it highlights only "green" and not "blue-".
ORIGINAL: When I double-click a hyphenated word or set of characters (e.g. "123-abc" or "blue-green" etc.), only the part of the word that I double-clicked is highlighted. I'd like the whole word to be highlighted.
I'm using Windows 7 Pro. If it needs to be done on a per-application basis, I'm most interested in fixing it for Google Chrome, but any Windows-compatible web browser would be OK.

Answer 1

Old question, but I happen to have been working on the same issue. Here's my solution:
jsFiddle.net
"use strict"
// Tweak to make a double-click select words with hyphens
//
// As of 2016-0816, None of the major Mac browser selects whole words
// with hyphens, like "ad-lib". This tweak fixes the hypen issue.
//
// Note: Firefox 48.0 doesn't automatically select whole words with
// apostrophes like "doesn't". This tweak also treats that.
;(function selectWholeWordsWithHyphens(){
var pOutput = document.getElementById("output")
var selection = window.getSelection()
// Regex designed to find a word+hyphen before the selected word.
// Example: ad-|lib|
// It finds the last chunk with no non-word characters (except for
// ' and -) before the first selected character.
var startRegex = /(\w+'?-?)+-$/g
// Regex designed to find a hyphen+word after the selected word.
// Example: |ad|-lib
var endRegex = /^-('?-?\w+)+/
// Edge case: check if the selection contains no word
// characters. If so, then don't do anything to extend it.
var edgeRegex = /\w/
document.body.ondblclick = selectHyphenatedWords
function selectHyphenatedWords(event) {
if (!selection.rangeCount) {
return
}
var range = selection.getRangeAt(0)
var container = range.startContainer
var string = container.textContent
var selectionUpdated = false
if (string.substring(range.startOffset, range.endOffset)
.search(edgeRegex) < 0) {
// There are no word characters selected
return
}
extendSelectionBackBeforeHypen(string, range.startOffset)
extendSelectionForwardAfterHyphen(string, range.endOffset)
if (selectionUpdated) {
selection.removeAllRanges()
selection.addRange(range)
}
function extendSelectionBackBeforeHypen(string, offset) {
var lastIndex = 0
var result
, index
string = string.substring(0, offset)
while (result = startRegex.exec(string)) {
index = result.index
lastIndex = startRegex.lastIndex
}
if (lastIndex === offset) {
range.setStart(container, index)
selectionUpdated = true
}
}
function extendSelectionForwardAfterHyphen(string, offset) {
if (!offset) {
return
}
string = string.substring(offset)
var result = endRegex.exec(string)
if (result) {
range.setEnd(container, offset + result[0].length)
selectionUpdated = true
}
}
}
})()

Answer 2

It's a standard through all programs that it will do that because they all run off the operating system's typing configuration/program thing. To fix it you would need to do something in System32. I don't know what you would need to do but I suspect this is your problem. You should probably go into more detail though about specifically what it is you want.