bbww

bbww (Better BackWard Word) is an Emacs package that provides alternatives to the basic built-in text editing commands forward-word, backward-word, backward-kill-word and forward-kill-word. These alternative implementations are generally less greedy, especially when the forward/backward region contains a newline.

The purpose of better-backward-word is to overhaul the default Emacs text editing functionality in a way that comes natural for users who are used to “normal” modern text editors.

Suggested configuration

The package MWIM is heavily used internally, and making use of MWIM is recommended to further improve the default Emacs text editing features.

(use-package mwim
  :config
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-a") 'mwim-beginning)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-e") 'mwim-end))

(use-package bbww
  :config
  (bbww-mode 1)
  (bbww-init-global-bindings))