Description of problem:

In previous versions, Gnome Terminal had the ability to select via the preferences UI what characters defined a "word" for the purposes of double-clicking and selecting text.  For example, by adding ":" to that list, if I double clicked on the "bar" part of "foo:bar", only "bar" would be selected.

In the current version (gnome-terminal-3.14.3-13.el7.x86_64), all of "foo:bar" is selected.  Copying and pasting hashes, function names, Mercurial changesets, GPG keyids, etc, etc, etc, are all now hard where they were once easy.

This is thus being considered as a regressive bug, as this ability was removed.

Per another bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165244) it seems that a later upstream package of vte solves the issue

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Comment 16: vte-0.39.92 brings back the word char support, and changes the default to only contain alphanumeric characters plus a few other exceptions (but no large sets of Unicode punctuation characters) 
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Regressive bug from gnome-terminal-3.8.X-13.el7.x86_64 to gnome-terminal-3.14.3-13.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a system including Gnome 3.14
2. Open gnome-terminal
3. Type a string with a :, like foo:bar
4. Double click foo:bar to see entire word highlight instead of either foo or bar.
5. Open preferences to observe no customize option to note these character exceptions like ':' (option is outright missing)

Actual results:
-Unable to define word-char-exceptions

Expected results:
-Should be able to define these exceptions

Additional info: