Need to highlight variable names starting with $ in Perl as well

[ericcirone]

I see you added special case to catch names with "$" in PHP. This is needed for Perl too. If you hightlight "$var1" you will not get any matches. If you turn off whole word only, then it works.

[PhiLhoSoft]

Actually, the root of the problem is probably from the borrowed code from find-and-replace module:

atom/find-and-replace#576

So the behavior with regard to non word chars should be fixed, instead of adding exceptions for a limited number of languages... (should be applied to JavaScript, Java, Stylus and other related CSS languages, perhaps Ruby?, and so on).
And the problem goes beyond: if I want to add . and # to the word chars of CSS, when I double-click #FFF or .foo they are wholly selected, but other occurrences are not highlighted.
While foo-bar is, perhaps because of another special case in code...

[mj41]

Probably related to: #73, #141, #132, #117, #88

[mj41]

FYI: You can disable "Only Highlight Whole Words" to workaround for language-perl "Non Word Characters" (/\()"':,.;<>~!#^*|+=[]{}``?-… ). Of course both $foo and $foobar will be highlighted if you select $foo.

[richrace]

See #174