From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp code to choose a region covering a word Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:10:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87ipzux26c.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87r5eix3cx.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290082309 32101 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 12:11:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:11:49 +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 Nov 18 13:11:45 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ3L5-0003S8-GS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:11:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJ3L4-0002yN-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:11:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57314 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJ3KH-0002vM-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ3KG-0006tS-6h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:10:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ3KG-0006sk-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ3KE-0002tE-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:10:50 +0100 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:10:50 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:10:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VIBF0tcAnESIZXIT61wYzFOTuH8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:75398 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: Just one comment: > (defun mark-next-word () > (interactive) > (skip-chars-forward "[:space:]") > (set-mark (point)) > (forward-word)) Most probably, it's better to use (push-mark) instead of (set-mark), just like Deniz suggested. That allows jumping back to the former mark using `C-u C-SPC' (repeatedly). Bye, Tassilo