Re: CamelHump word movement in Emacs

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Giuseppe,

> have you considered "c-subword-mode"?

Nope, I didn't know it till now, but it does exactly what I want.

I think this feature is generally useful and has nothing to do with C,
so I propose to rename it (and its commands and the file) to
`subword-mode' or `camelcase-mode'.

Also, it would be nice to have it as a global minor mode, too.

Any objections?  If not, I'd volunteer to do that.

Bye,
Tassilo

> 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