From: "R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Skipping words with C-<right> like other editors do
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:49:47 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <778085015.663724.1523818187137@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 778085015.663724.1523818187137.ref@mail.yahoo.com
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
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2018-04-15 18:49 ` R. Diez [this message]
2018-04-15 22:09 ` Skipping words with C-<right> like other editors do Skip Montanaro
[not found] ` <mailman.12470.1523830225.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15 22:17 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.12459.1523825033.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15 21:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-15 21:54 ` Tim Johnson
2018-04-15 23:34 ` James K. Lowden
2018-04-16 8:22 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-16 17:31 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-16 18:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-16 19:23 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-17 9:27 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-17 12:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-18 8:59 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.12492.1523866951.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-16 23:53 ` James K. Lowden
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