>>>> "Paul" == Paul Kinnucan
<paulk(a)mathworks.com> writes:
Paul> However, if the problem relates to the syntactical
Paul> significance of the underscore (_) character, then, yes,
Paul> jde-mode redefines underscore to be a word character rather
Paul> than a punctuation character.
That's it. There's something in the LispRef somewhere that says
"don't you dare define the syntax of `_' to be word character", I
suppose because it is defined as a symbol character so that sexp
movement has the same effect. Of course sexp movement is bound to
C-M-<key>, so much less convenient than word movement. I can see why
Java coders (especially those using the "barbaric" convention) would
prefer `_' to be a word character.
For those used to Lisp and X programming style, it would be nice to
have the option.
Paul> to prefer EmployeeName to employee_name.
I'm not going to do anything about it soon, but it occurs to me that
"wiki word" movement (kill, copy, etc) might be a nice feature. In that
case probably we ought to make "wiki word" and `_'-is-word-character
global options.
Comments? Especially, do you think Java programmers would like
wiki-word movement?
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