From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Word syntax question
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:21:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur669g8yu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpxd29ft.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:35:02 +0900
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 15:20 Word syntax question Miles Bader
2008-10-21 15:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-10-21 16:35 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-21 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-10-22 0:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-22 3:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-22 11:52 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-22 12:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-22 4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 5:16 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-22 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 21:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-22 6:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-22 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 3:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
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