How to change word selection separator characters in Mac OS X?
Solution 1:
The only difference between the two English options (at least in for ASCII characters) seems to be whether period and colon are treated as part of words.
Part of words:
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'.:_in Standard -
'_in English (United States, Computer)
Not part of the start or end of words:
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$+<=>^`in Standard -
$+<=>^`in English (United States, Computer)
Solution 2:
The answer by user ` is correct for pre-osx-10.9 (I think). However, in OS X 10.9 and later the System Preferences changed a bit. It now looks like this:
Solution 3:
To the best of my knowledge, selection word separation is done on a per-application basis, not a system-wide basis. iTerm allows you to configure the characters, but that's an extremely unusual option; most applications use the predetermined defaults in the Cocoa and Carbon libraries, which are hard-coded, not drawn from a centralized preference setting.