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From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.GOV (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Vi word hopping in emacs
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Date: 2 Aug 89 19:49:36 GMT
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? From: boris@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu  (Boris Goldowsky)

? But we already have syntax tables which specify which characters are
? part of words.  Couldn't this behavior be more easily gotten with
? modify-syntax-entry?

I don't think so. Emacs and vi both agree (more or less) on what makes
up a word. They disagree on what it means to move past one. The behavior
going backwards is the same, but not forwards. Emacs' forward is somewhere
between vi's `e' and `w' commands. This used to drive me mad when I first
learned emacs, but I got used to it tho.

I don't know if emacs' definition is based on sound theoretical premise
or merely on whim.

? Bng

	Root Boy Jim
	Have GNU, Will Travel.