RE: two function requests

[Doug Lewan]

(2) -- clause definition -- would be very useful.

Every time I land in a new work environment this comes to my mind (and then 
gets buried by the work at hand).

Here are some of the core ideas that I find in my current [lack of] design:

- Extend the logic of sentence definition to include commas, semicolons and 
colons. (There may be others.)
- Identify words and phrases that begin clauses (and, but, or, if, then, 
otherwise, when, whenever, etc.)
- Define the hierarchy that governs priority of those words and phrases.
- Define the rules governing clause definition given priorities.

Once you've got the above(!), then motion, intelligent wrapping, etc. should be 
easy.

Yours in deferred laziness,

,Doug

P.S. Is there a connection between your two requests?

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> 
> (1) A command that deletes every instance of a certain char, e.g., "_"
> is
> entered and every "_" is deleted from the text. Would be very useful
> when
> formatting pdfs into orgs.
> 
> (2) (forward-clause), (backward-clause) commands, which would be much
> more
> useful than (forward-sentence), (backward-sentence), particularly when
> formatting / reading pre-20th century literature, with its page-length
> Herman Melville sentences.
> 
> I suppose a function that sets point to next comma is what I am looking
> for,
> even if I'd be stuck incrementally moving inside of lists from time to
> time.
> 
> I'm asking whether these functions or similar functions already exist.
> If I
> were to write them myself, I also wouldn't mind being pointed in the
> right
> direction for models. I'm sure this would require just slight
> modification
> of the existing code base.
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