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Add Vim-style word boundaries to evil-ghostel - #661
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While evil-ghostel-mode is on, install a syntax table matching Vim's default iskeyword (letters, digits, and underscore are word constituents) so w/b/e/ciw stop at path components instead of treating a whole path as one word. Configurable via the new evil-ghostel-word-boundaries option; nil keeps ghostel's path-aware table. Disabling the mode restores the previously active table. The table is a child of ghostel-mode-syntax-table realized through a ghostel--realize-word-boundaries helper extracted from the core rebuild function, so non-ASCII boundary chars keep inheriting from the core table and live customization propagates to open buffers.
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evil-ghostel-modeis on, install a syntax table matching Vim's defaultiskeyword(letters, digits,_are word constituents) sow/b/e/ciwstop at path components (barin~/src/foo/bar.txt) instead of treating the whole path as one word. Disabling the mode restores the previously active table;W/ciWWORD motions are whitespace-based and unaffected.evil-ghostel-word-boundaries(string of boundary characters;nilkeeps ghostel's path-awareghostel-mode-syntax-table). Global-only; livesetopt/customize propagates to open buffers.evil-ghostel-syntax-tableis a child ofghostel-mode-syntax-table: printable ASCII is set explicitly tow/.(preserving the no-paren/quote-syntax invariant that keepsmouse-start-endaway fromforward-sexp), non-ASCII inherits from the core table, so│and other non-ASCII boundaries keep working.ghostel--realize-word-boundaries (table boundary-string)extracted fromghostel--rebuild-mode-syntax-tableand made stateless — non-ASCII entries are reset to inherit before each realize, so a boundary char dropped from the string reverts to its inherited syntax.setqbefore enabling still yields a correct table; install is guarded onghostel-modebuffers.Package-Requiresfloor forghostelbumped to 0.51.0 (the helper is new there).Tradeoff, documented in the option docstring, both READMEs, and the changelog: while the mode is on, double-click selects a path component rather than the whole path, and
ghostel-word-boundary-stringonly governs non-ASCII characters in these buffers.Tests
setqrealization, opt-out, live customization, non-ASCII inheritance) plus a core test for stale non-ASCII cleanup.make test-evil142/142, core word-boundary suite 6/6.test/elate/matrix/shells.json(ciw-path,b-dw-path,ciW-path,opt-out) — PASS on bash/zsh/fish/nu, andciw-path/b-dw-path/opt-outfail onmain, so they discriminate the feature. Newtest/elate/matrix/word-boundaries-ghostel.jsonpins the double-click tradeoff with real mouse events (mode on → component, off → whole path, re-enable → component). Boundary suites on all four shells stay green.