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Underscores and word commands
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Underscores and word commands |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:57:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
> My "instincts" have long been to interpret "word" as "identifier or keyword"
That's OK.
> in programming modes, to the point of customizing the syntax tables at
> startup to make "_" a word component. Not for regular expressions, but for
While you're free to do it in your .emacs of course, it's not a good
solution when it makes its way into a package's source code because it
then imposes this conflation of the two concepts on every user (they
can't easily fix it in their .emacs).
C-M-SPC, C-M-f, and C-M-b already jump over symbols in many of the
relevant cases, but we should probably offer, along the lines of
subword-mode, a new minor mode that makes word commands operate on
symbols rather than just words (without messing with syntax tables,
since that can have much further reaching consequences).
Stefan