Re: including emphasis characters as word characters?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Would it make sense to add the markup characters (ie, the car of every
>> item in `org-emphasis-alist') to the list of word characters, so that as
>> we're moving/deleting/transposing by word in org, the markup characters
>> are included? I mean with a sentence like:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC org
>> I read a book called /Fortress Besieged/ and it was awful.
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> If point is at end of the sentence, I'd like to be able to hit "M-6 M-b"
>> and have point end up just before the first slash, then hit "M-2 M-d" and
>> kill both words plus second slash.
>>
>> Would this be a bad idea for some reason?
>
> I think it is a good idea to use a syntax table for these characters,
> but not for org-mode in general.  So there is now `org-transpose-words'
> which uses the new syntax table temporarily.

Cool!