From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is a word? Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:26:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87wq0dzgnw.fsf@yale.edu> References: <83617xlg4q.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431462411 10476 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2015 20:26:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 20:26:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 22:26:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YsGlG-0006ls-Hz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 22:26:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsGlF-0004AE-M9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 16:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsGl5-0004A7-I8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 16:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsGl2-0005SX-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 16:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsGl2-0005SO-6d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 16:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YsGkz-0006eP-QU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 22:26:25 +0200 Original-Received: from nat-130-132-173-151.central.yale.edu ([130.132.173.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 22:26:25 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by nat-130-132-173-151.central.yale.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 22:26:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat-130-132-173-151.central.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r/q3DL6wYktHj4cvq9HCgzARNtE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104425 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Florian Lindner Date: Tue, 12 May >> 2015 21:55:44 +0200 ofter I find it, that the emacs function >> acting on a word not behave like I expect. I'm not sure if >> the definiton of a word is major-mode dependent? Talking >> about kill-word, forward-word and alike. [...] > Each major mode defines its own word-constituent characters. In > general, any character that can appear in a symbol recognized by > the programming language of the mode is a word-constituent > character in that mode. > > So "word" has different meanings in different major modes. For > example, the '-' character is word-constituent in Lisp, but not > in C. Also some minor modes affect the meaning of word, for example the minor mode subword-mode changes the definition of word so it respects the CamelCase convention. -- Jorge.