>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> btw is anyone maintaining python-mode?
Yes.
despite the following comment:
;; For historical reasons, underscore is word class instead of
;; symbol class. GNU conventions say it should be symbol class, but
;; there's a natural conflict between what major mode authors want
;; and what users expect from `forward-word' and `backward-word'.
;; Guido and I have hashed this out and have decided to keep
;; underscore in word class. If you're tempted to change it, try
;; binding M-f and M-b to py-forward-into-nomenclature and
;; py-backward-into-nomenclature instead. This doesn't help in all
;; situations where you'd want the different behavior
;; (e.g. backward-kill-word).
(modify-syntax-entry ?\_ "w" py-mode-syntax-table)
imho it is *not* acceptable to have a random deviation like this.
python is no different from c, perl, etc. in its treatment of
underscores and should absolutely not have such a gratuitous
incompatibility. there's a reason why backward-word and backword-sexp
don't do the same thing; if you want to move by entire identifier, use
the latter. with _ as symbol, you have a choice; with _ as word,
there's no way to [e.g.] delete a single word of an identifier like
`word_with_final_syllable'.
ben
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