Suggestions for wordSeparators

[Kurt-Shiwz]

• VSCode Version:
  1.17.2
• OS Version:
  10.13

Sometime I whill write some chinese work (not in a-zA-Z or digital, not a ascii character), I already set "editor.wordSeparators" to "`~!@#$%^&*()-=+[{]}\|;:'",.<>/?、：，。“”‘；", but there also have some problem.

vscode can't find "test" is a word, so quickSuggestions don't effect. but if i type space it will work.

Reproduces without extensions: Yes/No

[alexdima]

@Kurt-Shiwz The word suggestions do not use editor.wordSeparators, they use whatever makes sense in the programming language you are working in. i.e. each programming language defines what constitutes a word for it, mostly based on the language syntax.

What programming language are you using ? i.e. what file extensions? .js, .c, etc ?

[Kurt-Shiwz]

On plaintext
我在做test测试t
or .json
{"我在做test测试t":"","examp":"我在做test测试t"}
or .cpp
std::string t = "我在做test测试t";

[alexdima]

Word definitions:

• plaintext: /(-?\d*\.\d\w*)|([^\`\~\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\=\+\[\{\]\}\\\|\;\:\'\"\,\.\<\>\/\?\s]+)/g . Defined here

• json: /("(?:[^\\\"]*(?:\\.)?)*"?)|[^\s{}\[\],:]+/ . Defined here

• C++: falls back to the same as plaintext.

PR welcome. As VS Code is aimed at authoring source code, our priority is to make the default configurations for word definitions match more those of a programming language than those of a rich text editor.

[Kurt-Shiwz]

plaintext can use that
(-?\d*\.\d\w*)|(\w+)

[alexdima]

\w would make it significantly worse:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp

e.g. of running with that change (-?\d*\.\d\w*)|(\w+) for plaintext:

[alexdima]

This feature request will not be considered in the next 6-12 months roadmap and as such will be closed to keep the number of issues we have to maintain actionable. Thanks for understanding and happy coding!