From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: superword-mode Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:18:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wqt0xqiy.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sj3ny4ca.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ehf7zid3.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87obeby2ph.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878v5fxzjg.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871ub7xn7e.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r4j2v7t8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zjxqt21y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87zjxnqgec.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364591926 22435 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2013 21:18:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:18:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 29 22:19:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ULghd-00035P-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULghE-0000oY-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULgh9-0000oR-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULgh9-0007uV-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:14877) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULgh8-0007u3-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:18:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLSu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYoCws0EhQYDYhCBsEtjWGDKQOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLSu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYoCws0EhQYDYhCBsEtjWGDKQOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="6073975" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.180.174]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 29 Mar 2013 17:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E46E967865; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:18:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zjxnqgec.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:00:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158448 Archived-At: > 1) use `forward-sexp' instead of `forward-symbol' > 2) implement a local version of `forward-symbol' > 3) autoload `forward-symbol' The problem with forward-sexp is that it won't do the same as forward-symbol if it bumps into a parenthesis along the way. Also if the user wants forward-sexp she can just use C-M-f. So for all these reasons I think option 1 is not very good. Note also that there's no reason why forward-symbol should be defined in thingatpt.el, so it could also be moved to subr.el. Stefan