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Re: My humble additions to AUCTeX
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: My humble additions to AUCTeX |
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Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:26:16 -0500 |
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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