misc.el (forward-to-word, backward-to-word): Use (interactive "^p").

Thanks to Le Wang for the patch.

lisp/ChangeLog

-2012-08-22  Bastien Guerry  <bzg@altern.org>
+2012-08-22  Bastien Guerry  <bzg@gnu.org>
+
+	* misc.el (forward-to-word, backward-to-word): Activate or extend
+	the region under `shift-select-mode'.
 
 	* progmodes/executable.el (executable-prefix): Set to "#!" instead
 	of "#! ".  http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/#details

lisp/misc.el

@@ -99,14 +99,14 @@ Ignores CHAR at point."
 (defun forward-to-word (arg)
   "Move forward until encountering the beginning of a word.
 With argument, do this that many times."
-  (interactive "p")
+  (interactive "^p")
   (or (re-search-forward (if (> arg 0) "\\W\\b" "\\b\\W") nil t arg)
       (goto-char (if (> arg 0) (point-max) (point-min)))))
 
 (defun backward-to-word (arg)
   "Move backward until encountering the end of a word.
 With argument, do this that many times."
-  (interactive "p")
+  (interactive "^p")
   (forward-to-word (- arg)))
 
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