next/previous word in flex builder

Question

The felx builder (on eclipse) next/previous word command, usually bound to CTRL-RIGHTARROW on OPTION-RIGHTARROW on the mac, doesn't stop for ":" and "." and in a few other cases. It's clearly a wrong behaviour for action script development! How can I change it?

Answer 1

I have this issue as well. To confirm– if you copy your text and paste it into TextEdit, and then option-arrow through it, I expect that the caret will move the same way that it does in Flex. This suggests that the behavior Flex should be using is turned off, and that it is defaulting to the normal text behavior of the OS.

This problem is not specific to a version of the Flex SDK or to a project type. I've spoken to people about this problem, and they suspect that somewhere in the UI there is a setting to change or toggle this behavior. I haven't found that setting yet.