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RE: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments



> }
> } -Duplicate the word behind the cursor.
> } +Duplicate the word before the cursor.
>
> Behind in space, before in time.  What is left behind has gone before,
> but what lies ahead is still before us, and the part after
> this is even
> more confusing after I've written it.
>

Wow! I must confess, the times when I really could _feel_ this
difference, are far far away ... and for us, poor foreigners, who do not
use English in *native* environment, "before the cursor" is much more
understandable :-)

-andrej



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