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Add ranges of characters in 'wordDelimiters' #20365

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@thenger

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I wish to be select text by double clicking on words that are surrounded by emojis:

e.g.: 🗃️project1 🗺️region1

If I want to add this with all emojis I would have to add every chars in wordDelimiters

Instead I wish I could do something like that:

    "wordDelimiters": " \\()\"',:;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=\[\]{}~?\u2502\ue0ba\ue0bc[\u00A0-\u329F][\u1F000-\u1FAFF]"

thank you for reading and considering

Proposed technical implementation details

make [ and ] special characters that can be escape to write a literal "[" or "]"

Inside the range separate the two boundaries with -

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