Skipping words with C-<right> like other editors do

["R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de>]

Hi all:

I am not satisfied with the standard behaviour of C-<right> etc. I want it to work the way most "normal" editors do.

I tried the following with Mousepad under Linux (the default editor under Xfce):

text --- ^^^ *** /// ;;; aa-xx bb


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!

I think that this is the behaviour that I prefer.

I would prefer that the cursor only stopped once inside "aa-xx", like it is the case inside a text field in Firefox. In any case, I guess that, if Emacs' "superword-mode" is on, the cursor should not stop inside "aa-xx" at all.


I have tried everything I could think of to make Emacs behave that way: forward-word, forward-symbol, modify-syntax-entry.


I also tried this more elaborated solution:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/26417/custom-c-arrow-cursor-movement

But I just cannot get it right. Unfortunately, my Lips knowledge is too limited to come up with a more complex or flexible solution myself. After some years of frustration, I finally decided to post here.


Can anybody help?


Many thanks in advance,
  rdiez