Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!shemp!sdk From: sdk@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Scott D Kalter) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Vi word hopping in emacs Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 89 06:00:28 GMT References: <8908021949.AA08141@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: Univ. of California, Los Angeles Lines: 15 In-reply-to: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.GOV's message of 2 Aug 89 19:49:36 GMT I'm not sure what you would consider a "sound theoretical basis" for this particular item. However, let me suggest the following... In the emacs manual for Tops-20 Emacs written by RMS he states that the cursor should be thought of as a thin vertical bar to the left of the character it is currently on (somewhat like a WYSIWYG editor cursor). Given this way of thinking about it then the forward-word and backward-word functions both work fairly intuitively (at least for my intuition). Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse. -sdk