The following forum message was posted by stefanomasini at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydev/forums/forum/293649/topic/3670352:

Hi,

I used to develop under Linux and Windows and I recently switched to MacOsX. I 
found a very inconvenient difference in the latter platform when I edit Python 
code and move the cursor to the next word.
What I\'m talking about is what\'s called the \"Next Word\" and \"Previous 
Word\" commands in the \"Keys\" preference tab. The default binding for Windows 
and Linux is Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right respectively, while in MacOsX is Alt+Left 
and Alt+Right.
I\'m sure you all know what I\'m talking about...

If I have a line like this:

return myObject.myMethod(foo)

when moving across words, the boundaries do not include the dot. Therefore, if 
I hold Shift, I cannot quickly select \"myMethod\". I can only select the whole 
\"myObject.myMethod\".

I don\'t know about other users, but I find this incredibly annoying, I stumble 
into this very often and can\'t stand selecting the word letter by letter by 
just using the arrow keys.

I read about similar issued but all regarding Java editors and couldn\'t find 
anything specifically related to PyDev. I got the impression that this 
difference is due to the code relying on some platform specific functionality 
regarding word boundaries.

Am I missing something, or is this really a bug that should be fixed?

Thanks!
Stefano


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