Thanks Rodney, Vitalie!

I'm going to try Rodney's solution first.

Vitalie, I'll give it a shot.  I often like to copy something out of Emacs
to use somewhere else, like just a quick variable identifier.  A
double-click for such work is a nice convenience, though I went to Emacs
for the command-line for the non-mouse editor solution as much as possible.
 Thanks for the advice!

Matt


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> wrote:

>   >> Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis@gmail.com>
>   >> on Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:25:35 -0600 wrote:
>
>   > Thanks Rodney!
>
>   > Looking in that file, I see the line:
>
>   > (modify-syntax-entry ?_  "_"  S-syntax-table)
>
>   > Do I need to comment out this line and replace with the one above, or
>   > override it somewhere else downscript with the line above:
>
>   > (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")
>
> Putting this in ess-mode-hook will also work.
>
> In my opinion this is not the best idea. Emacs is keyboard oriented
> software, and if you modify something as fundamental as syntax table for
> the sake of a mouse click convenience, you are likely making a move in a
> wrong direction.
>
> Emacs word movement commands (M-f, M-b) will not stop at _. For people
> who use "_" in their programming (like myself), that would be extremely
> annoying.
>
> Have you considered M-f M-f as an alternative for a mouse click?
>
>     Vitalie
>
>
>
>


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