Re: forward-word

[Andreas Politz]

jrwats wrote:
> Is there any function providing the functionality of VIM's 'w'
> command? It moves forward a word, but places you at the beginning of
> the word rather than the end.  A good illustration of this (that only
> works when words are separated by whitespace) is forward-whitespace.
>
> VIM's equivalent of forward-word is 'e', but it seems emacs has no 'w'?

Emacs has only C-M-w ;)

(defun vi-forward-word (arg)
  (interactive "p")
  (cond
   ((< arg 0)
    (forward-word arg))
   ((> arg 0)
    (if (looking-at "\\w")
        (setq arg (1+ arg)))
    (forward-word arg)
    (backward-word))))

-ap