diff --git a/src/editor-view.coffee b/src/editor-view.coffee
index 7f6a99b45..28b50bf05 100644
--- a/src/editor-view.coffee
+++ b/src/editor-view.coffee
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class EditorView extends View
     showLineNumbers: true
     autoIndent: true
     normalizeIndentOnPaste: true
-    nonWordCharacters: "./\\()\"':,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?-"
+    nonWordCharacters: "./\\()\"':,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`?-"
     preferredLineLength: 80
     tabLength: 2
     softWrap: false