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Using forward-word with this line:
foo *** *** bar,
I want to have the folowing behavior:
foo| ***| ***| bar|,
Not:
foo| *** *** bar|,
So, if between spaces there are only non-letter symbols, let's consider this a word too. forward-whitespace is not good enough, cause it loses distinction between letters and non-letters at all.
How this can be done?
Just use forward-sexp instead (bound to C-M-f). Likewise, backward-sexp (C-M-b).
See (elisp) List Motion.
If you don't want to do that then you'll need to change the syntax for character * in your buffer to be word syntax:
(modify-syntax-entry ?* "w")
Or for a given syntax table, my-table:
(modify-syntax-entry ?* "w" my-table)
