Re: announcing thaiword.el?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Additionally, I think it would be a good idea to automatically
>> use thai-forward-word and thai-backward-word (which are
>> supersets of forward-word and backward-word, respectively) if
>> `Thai' is selected as the language environment.
>> 
>> That would require changes in a place that is too central to be
>> changed now.  We can't do it.

> Which place?  Please explain.

The explanation is that you're not talking about the same thing.
Changing the forward-word function is out of the question (it's a function
used at may places, so changgin its behavior has to be done extremely
carefully).  That's what Richard is talking about.

Whereas you're maybe just talking about M-f and M-b, which can be changed
with something like a thai-word-mode minor mode, to which nobody
would object.

Until someone provides an actual patch, we can't tell whether it's OK.


        Stefan