Re: syntax entry for _ in C mode

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From: Stephen Gildea
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 14:49

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    From: sundar@ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan)
    Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 14:53:21 EST

    Shouldn't the default syntax entry for the character _ (underscore) 
    be "w", a word component, rather than symbol component?

The behavior is more useful the way it is.  If you want to treat
underscore as just another character in a C identifier, use the symbol
motion commands.  But with underscore a word separator, the word
motion commands are useful if you want to move into the middle of a
long identifier containing underscores.  (Too bad Xlib names don't use
underscores :-)

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium

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