# Fix for next word/previous word Eclipse bug?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-for-next-word-previous-word-eclipse-bug/72403>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-for-next-word-previous-word-eclipse-bug/72403 "2006-10-17T01:14:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-for-next-word-previous-word-eclipse-bug/72403/1 "2006-10-17T01:14:16Z")

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As far as I know, this isn’t a ruby/eclipse bug, but I certainly haven’t  
found a general fix for it, so was wondering if anyone knowledgeable  
about the Ruby Eclipse plugin might have suggestions.

In Eclipse (my version at least, which _is_ up to date, according to the  
updater), the “Next Word” move command (bound to ctrl-right-arrow,  
typically I think) has a bug; it simply goes to the end of the line.  
Have others experienced this? Is there a fix?

Much less annoyingly (but still annoyingly), the Previous Word command  
stops between whitespace characters, i.e. each space or tab character  
seems to be considered a ‘word’.

I haven’t seen any ruby-mode-specific commands to overcome these  
problems, but then I really don’t know that much about Eclipse…

Thanks,  
Ken