Re: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Apr 10,  9:58am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> } Subject: Re: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments
> }
> } And the maual was wrong, wasn't it?
> } 
> } -Duplicate the word behind the cursor.
> } +Duplicate the word before the cursor.
> 
> Behind in space, before in time.  What is left behind has gone before,
> but what lies ahead is still before us, and the part after this is even
> more confusing after I've written it.
> 
> This is what we English speakers get for muddling our temporal-spacial
> relationships:  We're always getting ahead of ourselves, and no one else
> can tell whether we're coming or going.
> 
> So "behind the cursor" is to the left of it (unless you're writing in
> Hebrew or Aramaic or something) and I think the doc was correct before,
> or rather it was correct "behind." 

;-) Everything is crystal clear now...

Back to the original question: should I commit the patch? With a
to-the-left-of-the-cursor manual as suggested by Oliver? Should I make 
it a separate widget? (Name? I can only think of copy-last-word which
is probably to easily confused with copy-prev-word and insert-last-word.)

Bye
 Sven


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