From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "James K. Lowden" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Skipping words with C- like other editors do Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:34:19 -0400 Organization: http://www.NewsDemon.com Message-ID: <20180415193419.df83012d43d222edbd70e69f@speakeasy.net> References: <778085015.663724.1523818187137.ref@mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523835210 26339 195.159.176.226 (15 Apr 2018 23:33:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:33:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 01:33:26 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f7r9B-0006md-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:33:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7rBI-00013t-9x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:36 -0400 X-Received: by 10.200.35.12 with SMTP id a12mr5835570qta.41.1523835260133; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!s52no2597179qtc.0!news-out.google.com!p5ni14187qtp.1!nntp.google.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad!fx26.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64--netbsd) Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:34:19 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1672 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2782036735 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222423 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116541 Archived-At: On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:49:47 +0000 (UTC) "R. Diez" wrote: > I have marked with an exclamation mark all places where the cursor > stops at when you repeatedly press Ctrl+right or Ctrl+left: > > > !text! ---! ^^^! ***! ///! ;;;! aa!-!xx! bb! > > KDE's text editor Kate, Notepad++ under Windows, and Java environment > NetBeans behave a little different with regards to the start/end word > position: > > !text !--- !^^^ !*** !/// !;;; !aa!-!xx !bb! Somewhere in the documentation, a rational argument is made for emacs's choice. By defining forward-word and back-word asymetrically, navigation in either direction is sped up. To get to the beginning of a word while going forward, just go to the end of the word you want, and back to its beginning. Editors that stop at the beginning of the word in both directions have no good way to jump over arbitrary whitespace. --jkl