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 12:45:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87r5eix3cx.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290081704 29321 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 12:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:01:44 +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 13:01:40 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 1PJ3BL-0005Yk-RK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:01:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJ3BL-0004tH-5x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47858 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJ2vZ-0007m9-Kl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ2vY-0001hD-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ2vX-0001gp-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:45:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ2vW-00042n-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:45:18 +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 12:45:18 +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 12:45:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 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:wbnCHEbt14mc5SJMFdtMFs2tswU= 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:75397 Archived-At: Hi Soichi, this should do the trick: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (defun mark-next-word () (interactive) (skip-chars-forward "[:space:]") (set-mark (point)) (forward-word)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Bye, Tassilo