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

Uwe Brauer writes: You're welcome! BTW, I didn't do this at first because your requirements weren't clear to me, and the code is mildly complex because of the direction reversal handling. The key phrase was "I can't predict what repeating the command will mark" which clued me in that the direction reversal handling was important, then a bit of experiment led to the code above (it took about five tries, actually). Well, I'll think about it. But there are two problems. First, we'd need to do the same for other backward motion commands. More important, it's just not right. The right fix is to make mark-something work as expected with commands whose default direction is backwards. Also, Shift-Control-Left does the right thing by default, so it's not really necessary to make mark-word-backward work by default to get this level of convenience. What bothers me more is that mark-something commands don't mark the whole object, they just mark forward or backward. I guess I'd want an "outward" direction for mark-something, too. This may complicate the issue quite a bit. Posted to the tracker as issue732 (feature request). _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta