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23.4; M-x captialize-word works incorrectly

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: caleb <at> compwizard.net, 16190-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16190: 23.4; M-x captialize-word works incorrectly
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:54:01 +0200

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: caleb <at> compwizard.net,  16190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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:

Fair enough, I fixed the doc string to be more explicit on this matter
(in trunk revision 115612).

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