Re: Understanding Word Boundaries

[Uday S Reddy]

On 6/17/2010 3:20 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Emacs doesn't so much care about word-boundaries as about words.
> So when you forward-word, it just skip until the end of the next word,
> where "abc" is a word, but ";-( )" is not.
> So in many cases, it ends up doing in one step what VI would do in [two]:
> first skip over the non-word chars, and then skip the next few
> word-chars, whereas VI would stop after the run of non-word chars and
> stop again after the subsequent run of word chars.

Indeed, reducing two down to one is an advantage.

But if I have "abs;-()" and I want to delete the whole jing bang, Emacs loses 
big time!

Cheers,
Uday