This started in some charStyle thread... it is about a suggestion to
change the behaviour of C-left/right in mathed (aka word-backward/forward)
Originally I was (approx.) complaining that it takes a lot of left/right's
to move in mathed because of all the boundaries you have to cross.
Then I suggested that maybe C-left/right could be used to move at a
'courser' level...
[Brief interlude in the dialog were we are informed of Andre's 14 year
old configuration of his window manager - it steals his C-left/right)
Now back from the break, my suggestion is that we change the behaviour of
word-backward/forward so that it uses something other spaces as word
separators. One idea could be to use '+' and '-', essentially moving the
cursor one term at a time in a formula.
While on the subject, something's rotten in Denmark.. mathed, since
line-beginning/end
behave the same as
word-backward/forward
as far as I can tell. Both move the cursor to the first or last position
of the mathed box, and this seems pointless to me.
In fact, even inside \textrm{adsfas asdf asfd} word-backward/forward
doesn't work (i.e. go to the next word separated by a space).
Anyway, my conclusion (?) is perhaps that a 'word' in a formula should
correspond to something like a 'term' in a mathematical expression.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
