Alt+LMB (Left Mouse Button) double click for subword selection

[AlexWayfer]

Summary

Alt+LMB (Left Mouse Button) double click for subword selection.

Motivation

You can select words via ctrl-left and ctrl-right, also subwords via alt-. And you can select words via mouse by double click, but you can't select subwords via mouse.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I saw #2306, but it's about single click, as I understood.

Anyway, it can be configurable (I don't need for suggested selection there).

For now I don't see something (lmb, mouse, click) with mouse in Keybindings Settings.

Additional context

It's very handy for snake_cased syntax, like Ruby, without _ in Non Word Characters. I think for camelCased it's also handy.

[omkarpote]

This could be very intuitive and useful. Selection could be done step-by-step with each progressing click so that it also works across some operators. Like parent.camelCase.child could select camel, then camelCase, then parent.camelCase.child and finally the complete line of code. This could work only if there is no space between the operator and the words.

Makes sense, right?

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[AlexWayfer]

Verify that you can still reproduce the issue in the latest version of Atom

Yes.

What version of Atom you reproduced the issue on

1.41.0

What OS and version you reproduced the issue on

Latest Arch Linux.

What steps you followed to reproduce the issue

Described in the issue description.

[ghost]

Bump! Is bumping allowed? I would also like to do this, it works this way in all my other programs, it's messing with my flow not having the double click select a subword

[klaurence]

I also would like to bump this.

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[AlexWayfer]

• Verify that you can still reproduce the issue in the latest version of Atom

Yes.

• What version of Atom you reproduced the issue on

Atom    : 1.57.0
Electron: 9.4.4
Chrome  : 83.0.4103.122
Node    : 12.14.1

What OS and version you reproduced the issue on

Arch Linux.

What steps you followed to reproduce the issue

Described in the subject.