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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
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Subject: Re: Symbols as words?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:12:19 +0200
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Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> what's the option to make Emacs consider symbols as words?  In Viper mode, I
> used to have:
>
> (setq viper-syntax-preference 'extended)
>
> "`extended' means Viper word constituents are symbols that are marked
> as being
> parts of words OR symbols in Emacs syntax tables.  This is most
> appropriate for
> major modes intended for editing programs."
>
> I've looked around (Emacs Manual, Emacswiki, web forums) and I've
> found nothing
> besides hacking the syntax tables entry by entry.

If you use forward-sexp C-M-f it skips over symbols instead of words M-f.

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