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From: | Uday S Reddy |
Subject: | Re: Understanding Word Boundaries |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:14:49 -0000 |
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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
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