From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make double click select a symbol instead of word in Emacs Lisp mode Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:49:37 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84bs0wpiim.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84u1ephho4.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046444085 15327 80.91.224.249 (28 Feb 2003 14:54:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oluO-0003z3-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:54:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18olqp-0001Uo-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:51:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50877d52.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877d52.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.125.82) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1046443778 58618238 80.135.125.82 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sYA+zVLsfqE6+PuQgq+J23YvA6M= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110720 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7220 sandipchitale@yahoo.com (Sandip Chitale) writes: > It is kind of inconsistent though. I have to be precise with the > mouse which defeats the purpose of double-click to select word > principle. SO my question is is there some way to modify this > behaviour ? Using advise maybe ? I found out that the > defun mouse-skip-word in mouse.el is responsible for the behaviour. Yeah, I guess redefining that function will do. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.