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From: | Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo |
Subject: | Re: What is a word? |
Date: | Tue, 12 May 2015 16:26:11 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
[...]From: Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 21:55:44 +0200 ofter I find it, that the emacs function acting on a word not behave like I expect. I'm not sure if the definiton of a word is major-mode dependent? Talking about kill-word, forward-word and alike.
Each major mode defines its own word-constituent characters. In general, any character that can appear in a symbol recognized by the programming language of the mode is a word-constituent character in that mode. So "word" has different meanings in different major modes. For example, the '-' character is word-constituent in Lisp, but not in C.
Also some minor modes affect the meaning of word, for example the minor mode subword-mode changes the definition of word so it respects the CamelCase convention.
-- Jorge.
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