On 10/31/10 8:08 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Consider the string "word1 word2 word3 word4 word5" with point just
> before "word3". In bash-4.1, shell-backword-word moves point to the
> beginning of the string, but shell-forward-word just advances to the end
> of word4. The two functions really should be symmetric --- either both
> should break out of quoted strings, or neither should.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in bash-4.2.
> The latter
> behavior is probably better, and it's more consistent with Emacs.
If you want the latter behavior, why use shell-forward-word? Just stick
with forward-word and you'll get the emacs behavior.
Chet
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