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Can we please for the love of all that is good and holy have intelligent highlighting of IPv6 addresses???!?!?

When I double click on an IPv6 address it should highlight the whole thing. Bonus points if it also gets %dev for link-scoped addresses.

Add a colon to the "Characters considered part of word for selection" text box, under Preferences>General.

Thanks. Should be default though. Terribly annoying that this isn't default in all terminals by now.

That would break copy file name after a grep, as the separator : would be missed. Different use cases, different wishes...

urxvt allows full perl regex for matching text[1].

IPv6 addresses have more than one : and have a certain format -- you can distinguish with a simple rule.

This tends to work well as a simple filter:

  ([0-9A-Fa-f]*:){2}[0-9A-Fa-f:.]*