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

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 11, 10:20am, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
} Subject: Re: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > So "behind the cursor" is to the left of it (unless you're writing in
} > Hebrew or Aramaic or something) and I think the doc was correct before,
} > or rather it was correct "behind."
} 
} I'm sure what you say is right but 'before' seems clearer to me.

It's actually fine either way, to a native English speaker, so ....

} I wouldn't particularly consider the left to be behind the
} right because it is no further away and isn't obscured by it.

Ah, now -there's- an aspect of obscurity that I neglected to explore.
"Behind" like one car is behind another in a train [*], not like your
sister is hiding behind the couch.

[*] Train cars aren't automobiles, but automobiles are cars.
    Oh, nevermind.

On Apr 11, 11:48am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
}
} Back to the original question: should I commit the patch? With a
} to-the-left-of-the-cursor manual as suggested by Oliver? Should I make 
} it a separate widget? (Name? I can only think of copy-last-word which
} is probably to easily confused with copy-prev-word and insert-last-word.)

Oliver's suggestion:  Yes.

A new widget:  Yes.  Call it repeat-prev-word or copy-prev-shell-word or
some such.  (The distinction is whether the word boundary is typographical 
or shell-lexical, right?)

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