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Re: Word syntax question
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Word syntax question |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:58:54 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> > See char-script-table, forward-word also stops at a script boundary.
>>
>> That seems kind of broken in this case -- it's quite common for
>> "phonetic" characters to be intermixed in a word with latin characters,
>> and certainly nobody thinks of those boundaries as being word
>> boundaries.
>
> I agree. I think we should introduce a user option to control whether
> it stops on script boundaries or not, because sometimes it makes
> sense, sometimes it doesn't.
But a global setting seems far too course, and in general, whether it's
"right" or not seems like it depends more on the precise mixture of
scripts rather than a user's personal preferences.
-Miles
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