From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Understanding Word Boundaries Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:24:28 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291836976 6467 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:36:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 20:36:12 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 1PQPoB-0006Iw-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:36:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPoB-0004ro-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:36:11 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1276845874 13190 147.188.193.16 (18 Jun 2010 07:24:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:24:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179087 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:75899 Archived-At: On 6/17/2010 3:20 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Emacs doesn't so much care about word-boundaries as about words. > So when you forward-word, it just skip until the end of the next word, > where "abc" is a word, but ";-( )" is not. > So in many cases, it ends up doing in one step what VI would do in [two]: > first skip over the non-word chars, and then skip the next few > word-chars, whereas VI would stop after the run of non-word chars and > stop again after the subsequent run of word chars. Indeed, reducing two down to one is an advantage. But if I have "abs;-()" and I want to delete the whole jing bang, Emacs loses big time! Cheers, Uday