jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) (09/08/89)
Why is it that a "word" does not include escaped characters? (I should like words with TeX accents (e.g. "nam\'arie") to be counted as one word, and naively thought that making \ an escape would do the trick.) Since it doesn't, what would be the most efficient way to replace forward-word to achieve the desired result? (Viz. that a word ends with the first character that is an non-word constituent not preceded by an escape character.) Any help much appreciated!