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If I have someobj.someMethod() in a search dialog like Ctrl-H search and replace) it should be double-clickable like it would be if it were code. Specifically, double-clicking on "someMethod" should only select "someMethod" and not "someobj" or the period that joins them. See the attachment for an example of double-clicking on the method name.
Created attachment 40378 [details] double-click on method should select only method
This is questionable. Someone other could argue that double-click in a text field should behave same in all text fields. Do you know of any other text field in NetBeans where double-click does not select all text?
I just noticed that you are talking about the Find dialog in the editor - reassigned to component "editor".
The problem is that it isn't consistent with the way a coder might expect text to highlight. It suffers from a problem a lot of text fields have: what is a word character? In this case, if you have the code: myObj.myMethod(myArgs) and double-click on myMethod, all of "myObj.myMethod" get selected, but not "(myArgs)". So it's not selecting all text right now anyway. If it's going to try to apply magic to select on a per-word basis, words should also be delimited by a period character, and only "myMethod" should highlight.
I think the current behavior is the default behavior of Swing text fields (or the one implemented by your look and feel). I know that some IDE's use enhanced text fields for places where people are expected to write java code so that entering java code in a text field feels pretty much the same as entering code in the IDE's java editor. Anyway, one day Netbeans might have something like this too.
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