That may be, I don't know the tradeoffs for that, but I do think the updated regexes I sent are strictly superior in my testing so I think they should become the new defaults, unless I missed some case. Chris On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 21:07 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Chris Hecker > > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:51:23 -0700 > > Cc: yamato@redhat.com > > > > If you like using identifiers with underscores (_) in them, like > > C macros or even just regular identifiers, you can add _ as a word > > constituent in the syntax tables, but if you're using subword-mode > > then the forward and backwards regexes need updating to work > > correctly. Here is the relevant section of my .emacs c-mode hook: > > Perhaps we should make subword-forward-regexp and > subword-backward-regexp defcustoms? >