Underscore as part of word for forward-word not working
emacs, emacs23, nxhtml
Solution
Have you tried modifying the `nxhtml-mode-hook` directly? Like so:
(add-hook 'nxhtml-mode-hook
(lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")))
Problem
I am trying to make underscores get treated as part of the word for the `forward/backward-word` function as described here and here. I am specifically trying to get this to work for `nxhtml` mode, but would really like it to work like this for all modes. I have modified my `site-start.el` file a number of different ways but to no avail. But if I manually execute the command `M-x modify-syntax-table` in the buffer, it works just fine. I just can't get this to be the default behavior. Here is what I tried putting in my `site-start.el` file: ``` ;; 1 ;; thought this would apply it to all modes - no error, but did not work (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w") ;; 2 ;; thought this would automatically set it on a mode change - no error, but did not work (defun change-major-mode-hook () (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")) ;; 3 ;; thought this would apply it to all modes - no error, but did not work (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w") ;; 4 ;; this produced a symbol's value as variable is void error (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" nxhtml-mode-syntax-table) ``` What am I missing?