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23.4; M-x captialize-word works incorrectly

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: caleb <at> compwizard.net, 16190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16190: 23.4; M-x captialize-word works incorrectly
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:36:54 +0100

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 05:51:02 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:03:28 -0500
>> From: Caleb Wakeman <cdw1992 <at> twcny.rr.com>
>> 
>> With point in the middle of a word, I ran M-x capitalize-word.  Rather 
>> than capitalize the first letter of the word, as I expected, it 
>> capitalized the character at point and moved point to the end of the 
>> word.  (Specifically, rather than change `word' (wo-!-rd) to `Word', it 
>> changed it to `woRd'.)
>
> That's how capitalize-word is supposed to work.  It's not a bug, but
> intended behavior.

Then its doc string is incorrect:

   capitalize-word is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
   
   It is bound to M-c.
   
   (capitalize-word ARG)
   
   Capitalize the following word (or ARG words), moving over.
   This gives the word(s) a first character in upper case
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   and the rest lower case.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   With negative argument, capitalize previous words but do not move.

Steve Berman

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