smart-forward.el

smart-forward gives you semantic navigation, building on expand-region. It is most easily explained by example:

function test() {
  return "semantic navigation";
}

With point at the start of the quotes,

• smart-forward would go to the end of the quotes
• smart-backward would go to the start of return, then to the {.
• smart-up would go to the {
• smart-down would go to the }

With point at the start of function,

• smart-forward would go to the end of function, then to the }

With point at the start of {,

• smart-forward would go to the }
• smart-backward would go to the start of function

I use M-up/down/left/right arrows for this.

Installation

Start by installing expand-region.

(require 'smart-forward)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-<up>") 'smart-up)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-<down>") 'smart-down)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-<left>") 'smart-backward)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-<right>") 'smart-forward)

Contribute

smart-forward is a thin wrapper around expand-region. Most fixes to smart-forward belong there.

License

Copyright (C) 2011 Magnar Sveen

Author: Magnar Sveen magnars@gmail.com Keywords: marking region

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.