[debbugs-tracker] bug#375: closed (forward-word cmd finds beginning of next word)

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> forward-word cmd finds beginning of next word
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> Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:40:12 +0100
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> I have a feature request for GNU Emacs: In Emacs, when using the command 
> forward-word, with the keyboard shortcut M-F, I understand that Emacs 
> places point just after the end of the current word, pointing at the 
> beginning of a non-letter sequence. And the command backward-word, with 
> the keyboard shortcut M-B, places point at the beginning of the current 
> word, or if it is already at the beginning of a word, it places point at 
> the beginning of the previous word.
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> I would like if those two commands, forward-word and backward-word, had 
> identical results, i.e. so that the command forward-word would instead 
> place point at the beginning of the next word, just as the command 
> backward-word places the point at the beginning of a word.
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> Has this issue ever been discussed?
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> In Microsoft Windows, when you edit a text and you move forward one word 
> with Ctrl-ArrowRight, the cursor is placed at the beginning of a word. 
> It makes more sense, I think. Not that MS Windows is a great operating 
> system. It sucks, actually.
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> I am not subscribed to the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list, so would someone 
> send a reply to my e-mail address?
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> Gunnar Vestergaard
> Torshavn, Faroe Islands
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> Thanks for the report, but as was explained this won't be changed.
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