double left click on text (xterm and elsewhere) questions

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 21:35, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I have moved from using CentOS (4,5,6) to Ubuntu 18.04 and have things
> *mostly* behaving the way I want.  There is still one *anoying* difference:
> the way text selection works.  When I was running CentOS, double left click on
> any text area (xterms, Firefox, etc.) it highlighted/selected a "word",
> defined as a solid block of alphanums, with a *few* other charactors
> (underscore, and maybe a few others).  Under Ubuntu it seems to have a broader
> definiation of "word".

Can you give an example of what you mean?

Colin