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From: jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Definition of word
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Date: 8 Sep 89 11:25:02 GMT
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Why is it that a "word" does not include escaped characters?
(I should like words with TeX accents (e.g. "nam\'arie") to be counted
as one word, and naively thought that making \ an escape would do the trick.)
Since it doesn't, what would be the most efficient way to replace
forward-word to achieve the desired result? (Viz. that a word ends
with the first character that is an non-word constituent not preceded
by an escape character.)

Any help much appreciated!