That may be, I don't know the tradeoffs for that, but I do think the updated regexes I sent are strictly superior in my testing so I think they should become the new defaults, unless I missed some case.
Chris
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 21:07 Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:51:23 -0700
> Cc: yamato@redhat.com
>
> If you like using identifiers with underscores (_) in them, like
> C macros or even just regular identifiers, you can add _ as a word
> constituent in the syntax tables, but if you're using subword-mode
> then the forward and backwards regexes need updating to work
> correctly. Here is the relevant section of my .emacs c-mode hook:
Perhaps we should make subword-forward-regexp and
subword-backward-regexp defcustoms?