Re: dot in iskeyword in C and sh files

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Nikolay Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-08-07 1:11 GMT+03:00 John Little <John.B.Little@gmail.com>:
>> On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 10:54:07 PM UTC+12, olaf wrote:
>>
>>> No reason given why a dot should be part of a word.
>>
>> The Korn shell, ksh, has a syntax using dots; some kind of vaguely OO attributes.
>>
>> $ x=bob
>> $ x.y=carol
>>
>> A lot of ksh-isms found their way into POSIX, but not this one I think. Does anyone still use ksh?
>
> I do not think that *any* fact deserves adding *any* character to the
> &iskeyword option. The problem is not that some software thinks that
> identifiers may contain certain characters. The problem is that when I
> do dw with cursor on x I *expect* it to delete x *everywhere*.
>
> It is absolutely not fun remembering that "fucking sh *syntax* (not
> even filetype!) file messes up my keybindings so that `w` now moves
> over a dot, fucking erlang syntax file adds dollar and at signs there,
> …". Too many information and messing with &iskeyword really makes `w`
> (and other based on the word definition) movement not predictable in
> any new filetype.
>
> Do not remember where I suggested this, but I think that &iskeyword
> value should be saved before sourcing syntax files and then restored

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1285

Justin M. Keyes

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