Re: Minor feature idea

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Thu, Jan 22 2015, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> [Daniel Colascione wrote:]
>> Another option is to repurpose the word movement bindings. I don't know
>> what to think of that. Is a filename a "word"?
>
> No, words are smaller and have a well-defined meaning globally.

There's the superword-mode buffer-local minor mode, though.

When I do C-x C-f in

emacs -Q --eval '(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)'

I find that the syntax categories in the minibuffer are already
perfectly set up for that, e.g., `/' has punctuation syntax and `.'  has
symbol syntax.

Wolfgang