When coding in elisp, I find that I’m stopping at hyphens when moving by words, and would prefer to ignore them.
What’s the simplest way to do this?
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When coding in elisp, I find that I’m stopping at hyphens when moving by words, and would prefer to ignore them.
What’s the simplest way to do this?
M-x modify-syntax-entry RET - RET w RETshould do it. Or if you prefer an elisp snippet that you can add into a hook,(modify-syntax-entry ?- "w")The syntax table for a mode contains information on what constitutes various syntactic classes (e.g. words, spaces etc.). These are used to determine the operation of commands such as
forward-wordetc. Modifying it change the behaviour of these commands.