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How do I define word delimiters, e.g. I would like "123.34.45.56" to highlight as one word when I double-click it?

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The word delimiters used to be inherited from my gnome desktop settings. Since upgrading to 3.5, that is not the case. As part of my job, I look up email and ip address and need to copy them from one place to another. I used to just double-click the ip address and it would hight light, then I could middle click to paste it. Now I have to carefully swipe over the whole IP address.

The word delimiters used to be inherited from my gnome desktop settings. Since upgrading to 3.5, that is not the case. As part of my job, I look up email and ip address and need to copy them from one place to another. I used to just double-click the ip address and it would hight light, then I could middle click to paste it. Now I have to carefully swipe over the whole IP address.

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dougtx
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In Firefox about:config set layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation = false

Thunderbird also has this setting, go to Tools>Options>Advanced>General>Config Editor...

source: Layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation