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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Editor extensibility
Message-ID: <4052@enea.se>
Date: 5 Nov 88 00:27:35 GMT
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Kyle Jones (kjones@talos.UUCP) writes:
>No version of Unipress Emacs that I have used has a built-in notion of
>what consitutues a word.  It does have a default syntax table which
>specifies word constituent characters, but these can easily be changed
>on the fly, or via a per-user initialization file.

I know about syntax tables, but apparently they don't work. At
least not according to the manual. Anyway, doesn't matter how
you screw and fix with the syntax tables. (forward-word) will
still leave me at the end of next word, instead of the beginning
where I want to go. Also, I don't want a move-by-word command 
pass line borders. 
  If Emacs hadn't had this built-in presumption of what I want,
it would have been smaller and faster.

Will I'm at it: There is one more feature with TPU that is 
interesting: If you start up TPU with initiation file at all,
*nothing* is defined. CTRL/Y works to interrupt, that's all.
Thus, no time is wasted defining keys and functions I don't
use.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Stockholm        Flying is a way of being transported from 
sommar@enea.se              A to B over C and D. Travel you do by train.