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Re: My humble additions to AUCTeX


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: My humble additions to AUCTeX
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:26:16 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > Also, I want to level up the word commands to token-aware commands.
>> That'd be a mistake.  In Emacs, a "word" is not a "token".
> Could you elaborate on this?

Emacs's "word" is "a sequence of alphanumeric characters".  Always.

Its behavior is meant to reflect the "human text" notion of a "word"
rather than the related notion of a "token" from the current
programming language.  So the behavior of word-commands should not be
affected by the major mode.


        Stefan




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