mark-word (forward and backward) many words????

Hello I usually use mark-word quite often and I have bound it to a key. Now repeating the key allows me to mark the following word etc etc. So I thought of defining my own mark-word-backwards: The original code is: (defun mark-word (&optional count) "Mark the text from point until encountering the beginnin of a word. With optional argument COUNT, mark COUNT words." (interactive "p") (mark-something 'mark-word 'forward-word count)) Which I modified to (defun mark-word-back (&optional count) "Mark the text from point until encountering the beginnin of a word. With optional argument COUNT, mark COUNT words." (interactive "p") (mark-something 'mark-word 'backward-word count)) That works fine for marking one word backwards. However when I bind this to a key and repeat it then it does not repeat in the way mark-word does. I presume the reason is how the function mark-something is implemented or is there something I am missing? Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta