From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I put the '_' into the elements that form a word use by forward-word? Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:39:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <32387729.10211227198536100.JavaMail.coremail@yeahapp3.yeah.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227301588 15405 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2008 21:06:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:06:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 22:07:31 2008 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 4.50) id 1L3dDl-00014G-Fr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3dCc-0002DH-IO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:06:10 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c2g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1227245950 26850 127.0.0.1 (21 Nov 2008 05:39:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c2g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.26.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2 Safari/525.26.12, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164663 comp.emacs:97375 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:05:07 -0500 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:60012 Archived-At: On Nov 20, 2:33 pm, "Drew Adams" wrote: > Use forward-symbol, not forward-word. forward-symbol is kinda problematic. It does not seems widely supported. For example, there's no backward-symbol, and the =E2=80=9C*-word= =E2=80=9D cursor moving keys doesn't change. > Or change the syntax class of _ from word-constituent to symbol-constitue= nt. don't know what mode you are using, but here's a example of doing it with emacs-lisp-mode: (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?- "w" emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table ) ) ) See: =E2=80=A2 Syntax Class Table - GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual http://xahlee.org/elisp/Syntax-Class-Table.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84