Whole Words option should support the "$" symbol for PHP files

[ShimShamSam]

A recent change in Atom has made double-clicking a word select it including the dollar sign. This makes the Whole Words option ignore the word and fail to highlight matches.

[richrace]

Can you check what your Non Word Characters are in settings please?

[richrace]

So you'd expect all the test below to be highlighted (and not the last one):

$test = "test"
// Some test file
// Don't highlight thistest

And when the $test is highlight you expect the box to be around all of it like: $test?

[ShimShamSam]

@richrace You are correct. Where can I find Non-Word Characters setting? I do not see an option for it.

[ghost]

I came here to report the same issue. The change to include the dollar sign in the selection in itself doesn't seem entirely illogical (the variable name includes the dollar, after all), but it made using this extension to quickly see occurrences of a variable very impractical by requiring that you only select the portion after the dollar sign.