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Epsilon User's Manual and Reference > Commands by Topic > Moving Around > Moving in Larger Units >
Words
Epsilon has several commands that operate on words. A word usually consists of a sequence of letters, numbers, and underscores. The Alt-f and Alt-b commands move forward and backward by words, and the Alt-d and Alt-<Backspace> commands kill forward and backward by words, respectively. Like all killing commands, they save away what they erase (see Killing Text for a discussion on the killing commands). Epsilon's word commands work by moving in the appropriate direction until they encounter a word edge.The word commands use a regular expression to define the current notion of a word. They use the buffer-specific variable word-pattern. This allows different modes to have different notions of what constitutes a word. Most built-in modes, however, make word-pattern refer to the variable default-word, which you can modify. See Regular Expressions for information on regular expressions, and Variables for information on setting this variable.
You can set the forward-word-to-start variable nonzero if you want Epsilon to stop at the start of a word instead of at its end when moving forward.
| Alt-f, Ctrl-<Right> | forward-word | ||
| Alt-b, Ctrl-<Left> | backward-word | ||
| Alt-<Backspace> | backward-kill-word | ||
| Alt-d | kill-word | ||
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