forward-word

forward-word

[jrwats]

Is there any function providing the functionality of VIM's 'w'
command? It moves forward a word, but places you at the beginning of
the word rather than the end.  A good illustration of this (that only
works when words are separated by whitespace) is forward-whitespace.

VIM's equivalent of forward-word is 'e', but it seems emacs has no 'w'?

Re: forward-word

[Ronnie Collinson]

I would imagine with advice it wouldn't be to difficult to modify
forward-word to do that

On 2/12/09, jrwats <jrwats@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any function providing the functionality of VIM's 'w'
> command? It moves forward a word, but places you at the beginning of
> the word rather than the end.  A good illustration of this (that only
> works when words are separated by whitespace) is forward-whitespace.
>
> VIM's equivalent of forward-word is 'e', but it seems emacs has no 'w'?
>

Re: forward-word

[Andreas Politz]

jrwats wrote:
> Is there any function providing the functionality of VIM's 'w'
> command? It moves forward a word, but places you at the beginning of
> the word rather than the end.  A good illustration of this (that only
> works when words are separated by whitespace) is forward-whitespace.
> 
> VIM's equivalent of forward-word is 'e', but it seems emacs has no 'w'?

Emacs has only C-M-w ;)

(defun vi-forward-word (arg)
   (interactive "p")
   (cond
    ((< arg 0)
     (forward-word arg))
    ((> arg 0)
     (if (looking-at "\\w")
         (setq arg (1+ arg)))
     (forward-word arg)
     (backward-word))))

-ap

Re: forward-word

[jrwats]

> (defun vi-forward-word (arg)
>    (interactive "p")
>    (cond
>     ((< arg 0)
>      (forward-word arg))
>     ((> arg 0)
>      (if (looking-at "\\w")
>          (setq arg (1+ arg)))
>      (forward-word arg)
>      (backward-word))))
>
> -ap

and the kicker:
(global-set-key (kbd "M-F") 'forward-word-beg)

(kbd "M-f") still mapped to forward-word