bug#34301: Unable to make underscore part of a word everywhere

[Noam Postavsky]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> By default the underscore "_" symbol is not being counted as part of a
>> word, even though I have never met a language where it's a separate
>> entity.
>
> In natural languages it's usually not word-consistent.
>
>> This means e.g. that upon opening a file one is never being
>> able to "search for word_wth_underscores under cursor", unless they
>> modify current table.
>
> Any programming language mode sets _ to be part of words, surely?  If
> not that's a bug in that mode?  What modes do you see this in?

Most languages give '_' symbol, not word, syntax.  Looking at the linked
SE thread, this sounds more like a problem with evil though, apparently
it's difficult to search for a symbol?