From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: forward-word Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:29:26 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1234445427.500414@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <109d1ba0-e27f-46a8-8313-cef865e1e44d@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1234446174 20601 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 13:42:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:42:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 14:44:09 2009 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 1LXbrK-00070j-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:44:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXbq0-0006y3-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:42:44 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1234445502 24001 143.93.54.11 (12 Feb 2009 13:31:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:31:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: <109d1ba0-e27f-46a8-8313-cef865e1e44d@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-221-054.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166773 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:62083 Archived-At: 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