Subject: Re: bug#13437: control message for bug 13437

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:58:35 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> # cf forward-char, forward-line etc etc
>> tag 13437 wontfix
>
> forward-char is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
>
> [...]
>
> If N is omitted or nil, move point 1 character forward.

forward-char did not use to say that until recently (and forward-line
etc still does not).

Pretending it's not obvious that N defaults to 1 for all such functions
is just being tediously literal-minded IMO.

But it's obviously not worth arguing about.