From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: subword-mode
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:19:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd436itly.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo3a4318mk.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:22:27 +0900")
>> I just bumped into find-word-boundary-function-table, which lead me to
>> its only user: cap-words.el.
>> It seems both subword.el and cap-words.el provide the same feature (tho
>> cap-words.el is obviously not good at advertising itself, ahem).
> Given that it's only about 3 lines long, and apparently works by taking
> advantage of some existing low-level mechanism, cap-words.el seems by
> far the more elegant implementation...
Of course, it also has its disadvantages:
- the mechanism was not pre-existing (i.e. the implementation of
cap-words.el included a patch to syntax.c to add the relevant hook).
- because it operates at a low level it sometimes does more than one
asks for: e.g. since abbrevs are defined by default as "words", it
means that "FooBar" cannot be an abbrev without extra work.
BTW, looking at both subword and cap-words I'm surpried at the use of
2 completely separate regexps when going forward and backward.
I'd expect the use of a regexp like
"\\([[:lower:]]\\)[[:upper:][:digit:]]" where (match-end 1) says where
to stop and that should work in either direction. That can be combined
with "\\<" or "\\>" depending on the direction, (although I'd actually
prefer using forward-word to find that boundary, so it also obeys script
boundaries).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-25 4:26 subword-mode Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 5:22 ` subword-mode Miles Bader
2009-11-25 7:58 ` subword-mode Tassilo Horn
2009-11-25 9:31 ` subword-mode Miles Bader
2009-11-25 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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