edt: Words
7.2 Specifying Word Entities
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The variable ‘edt-word-entities’ is used to emulate EDT’s ‘SET ENTITY
WORD’ command. It contains a list of characters to be treated as words
in themselves. If the user does not define ‘edt-word-entities’ in
his/her ‘.emacs’ file, then it is set up with the EDT default containing
only <TAB>.
The characters are stored in the list by their numerical values, not
as strings. Emacs supports several ways to specify the numerical value
of a character. One method is to use the question mark: ‘?A’ means the
numerical value for ‘A’, ‘?/’ means the numerical value for ‘/’, and so
on. Several unprintable characters have special representations:
?\b specifies BS, C-h
?\t specifies TAB, C-i
?\n specifies LFD, C-j
?\v specifies VTAB, C-k
?\f specifies FF, C-l
?\r specifies CR, C-m
?\e specifies ESC, C-[
?\\ specifies \
Here are some examples:
(setq edt-word-entities '(?\t ?- ?/)) ; specifies TAB, - , and /
(setq edt-word-entities '(?\t) ; specifies TAB, the default
You can also specify characters by their decimal ascii values:
(setq edt-word-entities '(9 45 47)) ; specifies TAB, - , and /
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