From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing word boundaries Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:15:23 +0000 Organization: Entanet Message-ID: <87d442cb04.fsf@fx-laptop.ukfsn.org> References: <20091018162740.GA21146@doriath.local> Reply-To: fx@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257142897 12237 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2009 06:21:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:21:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 02 07:21:30 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 1N4qHR-0000cb-6R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:20:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4qHQ-000716-IR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:20:40 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!news.mediascape.de!news.enta.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.211.153 Original-X-Trace: energise.enta.net 1257102948 59436 84.45.211.153 (1 Nov 2009 19:15:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@energise.enta.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:15:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Draft-From: ("gnu.emacs.help" 27937) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ykmqzvnSzFqAmpyEWdhaXxfrzS0= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174297 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:14:34 -0500 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:69383 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > How about using ŀ? It's LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE DOT at U > +0140. The problem is that · only between two l becomes a word > constituent and in so many other cases it's a multiplication sign, a > comma, a name separator, some kind of bullet sign... It may be mis-used, but U+00B7 is MIDDLE DOT (punctuation). BULLET is U+2022 and the mathematical DOT OPERATOR is U+22C5. It surely doesn't really matter in this context anyhow. A lot of character syntaxes have long been wrong in Emacs anyhow.