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CamelHump word movement in Emacs


From: Tassilo Horn
Subject: CamelHump word movement in Emacs
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:46:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi all,

in many editors for "modern" programming languages like Java or C#, the
normal word movement commands also stop on CamelHumps.  This is very
convenient, because nowadays the convention for identifiers names more
and more turns to using camelCaseNaming.

Here's an example:

  int foo_bar_baz() {}

With the usual forward/backward-word commands, point always stops at the
_ (when moving forward) or the first char of the component word (when
moving backward).  I really like that behavior.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work if the function uses camelCase naming.

  int fooBarBaz() {}

Here, forward/backward-word jump over the complete identifier.  What I
would really like to have, was that those commands move point to the
capital letters (the 2 Bs), too.

IMO, that would be the right thing to do, because camelCase is nearly
never used for something else than separating words.

What do you think?

Bye,
Tassilo




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