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Ubuntu 18.10 gnome terminal 3.30.1

In gnome terminal when I double click on below word background it only makes sense it should highlight only the word background

background=true

however it highlights background=true

other distros' terminal allows you to edit the set of chars to define a word boundary

I issue this to find my UUID

sudo dconf list /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/

which shows 

:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/

to view available attributes I issue

sudo dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/

output :

[:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9]
default-size-rows=42
default-size-columns=142
use-transparent-background=true
use-theme-colors=false
use-theme-transparency=false
scrollback-unlimited=true
background-color='rgb(28,30,31)'
background-transparency-percent=3
audible-bell=false

below used to work in previous ubuntu releases to define attribute word-char-exceptions

sudo dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/word-char-exceptions '@ms "-#%&+,./:=?@_~"'

none of the answers here work on 18.10 Can I specify what characters set the double-click selection boundary in GNOME Terminal?

UPDATE here is what works

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/ word-char-exceptions  '@ms "-,.?%&#_+@~·/"'

just replace b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9 with your own UUID value

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    These commands should work, nothing changed here in the last couple of years in gnome-terminal. Remove all those sudos, though! You should be fiddling with your own settings as a normal user, why switch to the superuser? Chances are that you're modifying the superuser's settings and not your own ones. Oh, and make sure to remove the '=' sign from the list!
    – egmont
    Nov 3, 2018 at 12:12

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you can set it by below commands.
change the profile id with your profile id in the below command.
mine is a565cffd-62b9-4c43-bd4e-d4b48b2c3cb4

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:a565cffd-62b9-4c43-bd4e-d4b48b2c3cb4/ word-char-exceptions '@ms "-,.?%&#_+@~·/"'

here is the example:

pratap@i7-6550U:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList list
['b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9', 'a565cffd-62b9-4c43-bd4e-d4b48b2c3cb4']
pratap@i7-6550U:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:a565cffd-62b9-4c43-bd4e-d4b48b2c3cb4/ word-char-exceptions
@ms nothing
pratap@i7-6550U:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:a565cffd-62b9-4c43-bd4e-d4b48b2c3cb4/ word-char-exceptions '@ms "-,.?%&#_+@~·/"'
pratap@i7-6550U:~$

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    I tried your ! approach and was close yet here is what worked fine ... gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/ word-char-exceptions '@ms "-,.?%&#_+@~·/"'
    – Scott Stensland
    Nov 3, 2018 at 16:55
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The dconf approach in case anyone tries it, no longer seems to work on ubuntu20 and maybe others. This worked for me:

UUID=$(gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList default | tr -d \')
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:${UUID}/ word-char-exceptions '@ms "-/@_&.?"'
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