Re: mark-word

[Leo]

On 2007-11-14 08:11 +0000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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'.

Why?

Is mark-paragraph compatible with kill-paragraph?

> 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

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