From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Symbols as words? Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346003361 7466 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2012 17:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Raffaele Ricciardi Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 19:49:22 2012 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 1T5gxb-0003qc-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:49:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5gxZ-00020y-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dwS-0003ts-0F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dwQ-0006iu-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:57811 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dwQ-0006io-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:35:54 -0400 Original-Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id A2FEE22989; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:35:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09C222983; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:35:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-Received-From: 69.60.117.94 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:49:09 -0400 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:86528 Archived-At: abbrev-mode might work in this case once a dictionary of abbreviations is built or downloaded if available. On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Raffaele Ricciardi wrote: > 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. > > Thanks. > > jude