From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: mark-word Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:11:42 +0900 Message-ID: <873av9gsap.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <200711140835.41856.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195027903 30689 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2007 08:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 14 09:11:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsDLf-0005eo-AM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:11:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsDLR-0002YC-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:11:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsDKA-0002EX-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:10:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsDK7-0002Db-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsDK6-0002DU-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IsDK6-0001QM-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IsDJx-00025t-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:10:01 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23EA7FFA; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:09:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B96B91A2E12; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:11:43 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <200711140835.41856.andreas.roehler@online.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070621) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83170 Archived-At: Andreas R=F6hler 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-@.