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   :description: M-f, M-b, M-d, <M-backspace> over camelCase!
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.. post:: Jan 06, 2009
   :tags: Plone, Zope
   :author: Ross Patterson
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Emacs tips: Navigate CamelCase
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    M-f, M-b, M-d, <M-backspace> over camelCase!

Update 2: See comment below about c-subword-mode being renamed to subword-mode.

Update: See the comment below about using subword-mode.  It's already included in my emacs at least, and it seems to be a bit better supported.  camelCase-mode seems to conflict with org-mode at least.

I'm terribly behind on my blogging but I wanted to re-post this nice
little `tidbit
<http://juripakaste.fi/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/emacs-tip.html>`_ from Planet
Python for those who aren't on it already.  The `camelCase-mode
<http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~leavens/emacs/camelCase/camelCase-mode.el>`_
for emacs allows you to do most word based operations over the
separate words that make up a camel case word.

I've been needing something like this for some time.  As an emacs
junkie, I've gotten quite accustomed to being able to move point
pretty much directly where I want it in just a few key strokes.  Camel
case words, however, can get quite long so correcting a typo or
changing a plural in one of the constituent words can leave me
reaching for my mouse of hammering away at C-f or C-b.  Simply
unacceptable!  :)

So I downloaded `camelCase.el
<http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~leavens/emacs/camelCase/camelCase-mode.el>`_
to /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp and then added the following to my
.emacs::

    (require 'camelCase)
    (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'camelCase-mode)

Ta da!  CamelCaseGoodness!


.. update:: Sep 09, 2012

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