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Suggestion - add additional characters to syntax table to support evil mode word motions #647
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This proposal would introduce inconsistency with all other lisp modes and likely break things for various tools and non-evil users. The "w" and "_" syntax descriptors have specific meanings in Emacs, see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/1075/whats-the-difference-between-words-and-symbols The issue is that Vi's concept of word/WORD motions are not ergonomic to use with lisps; packages like evil-cleverparens / lispyville address this by defining new motions and remapping the Edit: it looks like evil-mode has a built-in solution too: |
Expected behavior
in evil mode w motion should work on clojure symbols for example: this-symbol?!
Actual behavior
currently the motion will only include 'this' - i.e up to to the hyphen.
Steps to reproduce the problem
std doom-emacs with clojure mode
Environment & Version information
clojure-mode version
Emacs version
GNU emascs 27.1
Operating system
Linux 5.15.0-67-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 22 14:14:39 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Suggested change
I am not too familiar with emacs lisp or the clojure mode so this is just a suggestion - it has worked for me in my local configs.
add the following extensions to the word syntax definitions in the clojure-mode-syntax-table (there may be a more compact way of expressing that but I am not familiar with required syntax).
you may or may not want to include the # character. I found it useful and it is accepted in symbols
I am not certain how/if to this should be changed where a character is not allowed as the first char of a word....
I note also that motions like yW are a problem because they pick up brackets when at the end of an expression. So I also included # / : and . because these are useful. There may be a better way to include these...
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