Question

I don’t know if there’s something wrong with my settings but when I press M-f (forward a word)
it doesn’t matter where I am, it never place the cursor in the next word (just between words). This doesn’t happen with M-b which place my cursor in the beginning of the previous word.

Is this a normal behavior? How do I place my cursor at the beginning of the following word?

Answer 1

Ok, just so we’re clear, Im going to assume you are talking about the commands forward-word and backward-word these are bound by default to Alt+f and Alt+b

eg string: “Hello dolly I am here”

If your cursor is on the “H” of “Hello”, and you do forward-word the cursor will move to the space between “Hello” and “dolly”, but it sounds like you want the cursor to be on the letter “d” of “dolly” instead of in-front of it.

So, do forward-word twice, then backward-word once.

That will put your cursor on the “d” of “dolly”.

This can be automated with a macro.

;; = comments, do not type them

Ctrl+x ( ;;start macro

Alt+f Alt+f Alt+b

Ctrl+x ) ;;end macro

Then to run last defined macro do this:

Ctrl+x e

EDIT: as pascal mentioned in a comment, this can also just be done with

Alt+f Ctrl+f

You could put that into a macro as well, either way the result is the same.