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List:       nedit-discuss
Subject:    Re: Problems with New Language Mode
From:       Thorsten Haude <yoo () vranx ! de>
Date:       2007-05-27 9:43:15
Message-ID: 20070527094315.GG1916 () eumel ! yoo ! local
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Hi,

* Jörg Fischer wrote (2007-04-24 16:55):
>This is probably a problem of the documentation. (...)

I took Jörg's suggestion and modified it a bit. Please have a look at
the attached patch.


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Index: doc/help.etx
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/nedit/nedit/doc/help.etx,v
retrieving revision 1.106
diff --unified=5 -r1.106 help.etx
--- doc/help.etx	4 Jan 2007 01:42:23 -0000	1.106
+++ doc/help.etx	27 May 2007 09:35:49 -0000
@@ -1392,15 +1392,17 @@
      $    End of line
      <    Left word boundary
      >    Right word boundary
      \B   Not a word boundary
 
-  Note that the \B token ensures that neither the left nor the right
-  character are delimiters, or that both left and right characters are
-  delimiters.  The left word anchor checks whether the previous character
-  is a delimiter and the next character is not.  The right word anchor
-  works in a similar way.
+  Note that the \B token ensures that neither the left nor the right character
+  are delimiters, **or** that both left and right characters are delimiters.
+  The left word anchor checks whether the previous character is a delimiter and
+  the next character is not. The right word anchor works in a similar way.
+
+  Note that word delimiters are user-settable, and defined by the X resource
+  wordDelimiters, cf. X_Resources_.
 
 3>Quantifiers
 
   Quantifiers specify how many times the previous regular expression atom may
   be matched in the search text.  Some quantifiers can produce a large
@@ -4114,14 +4116,19 @@
   will be loaded at this time. When this resource value is False, relative path
   tag specifications will only be evaluated at NEdit startup time.
 
 **nedit.wordDelimiters**: .,/\\`'!@@#%^&*()-=+{}[]":;<>?
 
-  The characters, in addition to blanks and tabs, which mark the boundaries
-  between words for the move-by-word (Ctrl+Arrow) and select-word (double
-  click) commands.  Note that this default value may be overridden by the
-  setting in Preferences -> Default Settings -> Language Modes....
+  The set of characters which mark the boundaries between words. In addition
+  to these, spaces, tabs, and newlines are always word boundaries.
+
+  These boundaries take effect for the move-by-word (Ctrl+Arrow) and
+  select-word (double click) commands, and for doing regex searches using the
+  \B, < and > tokens.
+  
+  Note that this default value may be overridden by the setting in
+  Preferences -> Default Settings -> Language Modes....
 
 **nedit.remapDeleteKey**: False
 
   Setting this resource to True forcibly maps the delete key to backspace. This
   can be helpful on systems where the bindings have become tangled, and in

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