mark-word

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andreas Röhler writes:

 > If mark-word is called while inside a word, it marks
 > from this point until the end of word first AFAIS, thus
 > leaving the first part of the word unmarked.

 > IMO marking the word-at-point completely then would be
 > a more convenient behaviour.

`mark-word' itself should remain compatible with `kill-word' and
`mark-sexp'.  I think it would be a good idea to have a
`mark-entire-word' command and bind it to M-@, especially since C-@
doesn't mark a character.  Ditto `mark-entire-sexp' and address@hidden