Re: Improve word boundaries for text widgets

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 08:54:03PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 02:10:02PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > My main motiviation is that 'we follow TR29' is much better in terms
> > of documenting it, testing it and diagnosing bugs in than 'do what vim
> > does'.
>
> That would work if TR29 specifies clearly the different word boundaries
> to use for the different features. But it is not the case. Instead, TR29
> specifies generic word boundaries that should be tailored for the
> different features, and the tailoring is left as an exercise for the
> reader.

For what it's worth, LibreOffice Writer also takes into account the
punctuation for word movements and word selection.