$buffer-mask(5)$buffer-mask - Current buffer word class mask.
$buffer-mask string; Default is luh
$buffer-mask sets the current buffer word class mask. MicroEmacs has an internal word lookup table which defines whether a given letter is considered to be part of a word. This functionality is used in many areas such as forward-word(2), forward-kill-word(2) hilighting etc. The mask is composed with any combination of the following flags, the order in which the flags are specified is not important:
l
u
h
s
1
2
3
4
The character sets may be modified using the set-char-mask(2) command.
Ref: $buffer-mask(5) File: m5var007.5 Date: 2025/08/28
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