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 do I highlight word at point? Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8403dd42-f1a6-41fa-91d0-fa8b2a873932@u40g2000pru.googlegroups.com> References: <1224382569.209484@nntp.acecape.com> 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 1224398428 25524 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2008 06:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 08:41:32 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KrRym-0005FI-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrRxg-00059j-R1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:40:24 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u40g2000pru.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224395054 23490 127.0.0.1 (19 Oct 2008 05:44:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u40g2000pru.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/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163581 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:58922 Archived-At: Wei Weng wrote: =C2=ABhow to highlight word at point=C2=BB You can do this: (defun select-word () "Select a word under cursor. =E2=80=9Cword=E2=80=9D here is considered any alphenumeric sequence with = =E2=80=9C_=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9C-=E2=80=9D." (interactive) (let (b1 b2) (skip-chars-backward "-_A-Za-z0-9") (setq b1 (point)) (skip-chars-forward "-_A-Za-z0-9") (setq b2 (point)) (set-mark b1) ) ) (transient-mark-mode t) (global-set-key (kbd "M-8") 'select-word) Then, Alt+8 will select the current word. ----------------- This select-word command will be incorporated into the ergonomic keymap design in the future. I just haven't decided Alt+8 is the best spot, but i've been using it for a year. See http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84