Hi list,
I have been using Emacs for some time now, but there is one thing
about the cursor-movement that bothers me and I haven't found a way to
hack around it. I'm sure someone else have tried this before, but I'm
at loss at what to google for, to find it. So, does anybody at this
list know, or have an idea about how, to achieve the following:

First, assume Emacs' default cursor-movement (The | character is the
cursor-position):
|lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
(forward-word)
lorem| ipsum dolor sit amet
(forward-word)
lorem ipsum| dolor sit amet
(backward-word)
lorem |ipsum dolor sit amet

troelskn gmail.com> writes:

(defun my-forward-word (&optional arg)
(interactive "p")
(dotimes (n arg)
(goto-char (1+ (point)))
(re-search-forward "\\b" nil t)))

Am Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008 19:56 schrieb Johan Bockgård:

Great, thanks!

So let's give them still an appropriate name and make it move
backward too.

(defun next-word-boundary (&optional arg)
"Move point forward arg word boundaries (backward if arg is negative)"
(interactive "p")
(if (< 0 arg)
(dotimes (n arg)
(goto-char (1+ (point)))
(re-search-forward "\\b" nil t))
(dotimes (n (abs arg))
(goto-char (1- (point)))
(re-search-backward "\\b" nil t))))

On 4 Maj, 19:56, bojohan+n...@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) wrote:

Exactly what I was trying to accomplish. Thanks a bunch!