From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Minor feature idea Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:07:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4e313683-c3ec-4730-93ad-d5cd691c18be@default> References: <54C1803A.3020701@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421968112 24759 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2015 23:08:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:08:32 +0000 (UTC) To: Daniel Colascione , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 00:08:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEQrQ-0007AF-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:08:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEQrP-0008VL-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEQrD-0008VE-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEQrA-0004go-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:22605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEQrA-0004gh-24; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t0MN80LH015311 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:08:01 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0MN7xrs029769 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:08:00 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0013.oracle.com (abhmp0013.oracle.com [141.146.116.19]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0MN7wIn012681; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:07:59 GMT In-Reply-To: <54C1803A.3020701@dancol.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181637 Archived-At: > Another option is to repurpose the word movement bindings. I don't know > what to think of that. Is a filename a "word"? But just as for the symbol-movement commands, word-movement commands are useful *as such* with file names. It is often handy to move across "word" components when editing file names, including in the minibuffer: /foo-bar-thetototata-baz.bof ^ ^ ^