bug#34301: closed (Unable to make underscore part of a word everywhere)

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> Unable to make underscore part of a word everywhere
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> Sun, 3 Feb 2019 21:09:48 +0300
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> By default the underscore "_" symbol is not being counted as part of a 
> word, even though I have never met a language where it's a separate 
> entity. This means e.g. that upon opening a file one is never being able 
> to "search for word_wth_underscores under cursor", unless they modify 
> current table. This problem haunts many people, e.g. this question has 
> 5576 views for 3 years 11 months 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/9583/how-to-treat-underscore-as-part-of-the-word
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> Known workarounds:
>         1. Modify syntax table for every mode you happened to stumble upon.
>         2. Use superword-mode
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> Why workarounds are bad:
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> 	1. To make it work one has to search for syntax table name of the 
> current mode, and then to modify config file accordingly, every time a 
> new mode is being met. That's a lot of actions and research overall, a 
> bloating config file; and also lots of work duplication by many Emacs users.
> 	2. superword-mode doesn't do anything to syntax table, and in 
> particular doesn't work with evil-mode.
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> It would be great if Emacs has added a function or what not to just keep 
> underscore as part of a word for all syntax tables by default.
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> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
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> >> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
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> >>> By default the underscore "_" symbol is not being counted as part of a
> >>> word, even though I have never met a language where it's a separate
> >>> entity.
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> >> In natural languages it's usually not word-consistent.
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> >>> This means e.g. that upon opening a file one is never being
> >>> able to "search for word_wth_underscores under cursor", unless they
> >>> modify current table.
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> >> Any programming language mode sets _ to be part of words, surely?  If
> >> not that's a bug in that mode?  What modes do you see this in?
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> > Most languages give '_' symbol, not word, syntax.  Looking at the linked
> > SE thread, this sounds more like a problem with evil though, apparently
> > it's difficult to search for a symbol?
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> More information was requested, but none was given within 1 year, so I'm
> closing this bug.  This seems to be either a bug in evil or some
> programming mode.
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> If this is still an issue, please reply to this email (use "Reply to
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> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
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