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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: mark-word
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:11:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873av9gsap.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711140835.41856.andreas.roehler@online.de>

Andreas Röhler writes:

 > If mark-word is called while inside a word, it marks
 > from this point until the end of word first AFAIS, thus
 > leaving the first part of the word unmarked.

 > IMO marking the word-at-point completely then would be
 > a more convenient behaviour.

`mark-word' itself should remain compatible with `kill-word' and
`mark-sexp'.  I think it would be a good idea to have a
`mark-entire-word' command and bind it to M-@, especially since C-@
doesn't mark a character.  Ditto `mark-entire-sexp' and C-M-@.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-14  7:35 mark-word Andreas Röhler
2007-11-14  8:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2007-11-14  8:26   ` mark-word David Kastrup
2007-11-14 11:27     ` mark-word Andreas Röhler
2007-11-14 17:24       ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-14 19:07         ` mark-word Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15  0:33           ` mark-word Miles Bader
2007-11-15  8:40             ` mark-word Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15  9:18               ` mark-word Miles Bader
2007-11-15 13:52                 ` mark-word Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15 10:04               ` mark-word Andreas Röhler
2007-11-14 17:02     ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-14  8:37   ` mark-word Leo
2007-11-14 16:35     ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-15  3:07     ` mark-word Richard Stallman

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