From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Understanding Word Boundaries Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4C2691F1.5020802@mousecar.com> References: Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277596183 5429 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2010 23:49:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Paul Drummond Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 27 01:49:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSf7v-0007rf-Ra for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:49:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSf7u-0002a2-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44813 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSf7Y-0002Zx-H2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSf7X-0004ac-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:60931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSf7X-0004aT-95 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.26] (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lhy5C-1Own7w39Va-00mrln; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:09 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100318) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18+qnlIF/eCnYCsxG37nMr2hiYL252gEuRIy9L SlreRp2ZVCWmVX7+6tLjQB2H+YKfxj++sxZrEu/1UDxLLsElSh XxyvVGeXlQ3fS9gs8ZImkj4LLNv4oq5 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73984 Archived-At: On 06/26/2010 06:53 AM Paul Drummond wrote: > Thanks for the responses guys. > > I think the point I am trying to make here is that it's a *big* task to > fix word boundaries for every case (every word-related key binding > multiplied by each language/major mode I use!). > > I presume that Emacs hackers either a) put up with it or b) spend a lot > of time fixing each case until they are happy. > > I suspect the answer is b. ;-) > > I wish there was a single minor-mode that fixes all the word boundary > issues for every major-mode I use! I can but dream. Or maybe I will > get round to doing it myself one day! ;) > > Cheers, > Paul Drummond Is it possible to specify word boundaries for a particular mode? -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: