Re: CamelHump word movement in Emacs

[Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>]

have you considered "c-subword-mode"?

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> in many editors for "modern" programming languages like Java or C#, the
> normal word movement commands also stop on CamelHumps.  This is very
> convenient, because nowadays the convention for identifiers names more
> and more turns to using camelCaseNaming.
>
> Here's an example:
>
>   int foo_bar_baz() {}
>
> With the usual forward/backward-word commands, point always stops at the
> _ (when moving forward) or the first char of the component word (when
> moving backward).  I really like that behavior.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't work if the function uses camelCase naming.
>
>   int fooBarBaz() {}
>
> Here, forward/backward-word jump over the complete identifier.  What I
> would really like to have, was that those commands move point to the
> capital letters (the 2 Bs), too.
>
> IMO, that would be the right thing to do, because camelCase is nearly
> never used for something else than separating words.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo