Re: Word syntax question

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > See char-script-table, forward-word also stops at a script boundary.
>> 
>> That seems kind of broken in this case -- it's quite common for
>> "phonetic" characters to be intermixed in a word with latin characters,
>> and certainly nobody thinks of those boundaries as being word
>> boundaries.
>
> I agree.  I think we should introduce a user option to control whether
> it stops on script boundaries or not, because sometimes it makes
> sense, sometimes it doesn't.

But a global setting seems far too course, and in general, whether it's
"right" or not seems like it depends more on the precise mixture of
scripts rather than a user's personal preferences.

-Miles

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