Subject: bug#17558: 24.4.50; global-subword-mode breaks ERC

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:03:21 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Indeed, with the new implementation of subword-mode, most of the
> word-operating commands should be marked as "interactive use only",
> since their behavior is too unreliable for use in Lisp code.

Sounds to me like it will be a PITA to review/replace every
non-interactive usage of those commands.

Are people certain they want to go down this road?

(At time of writing, I don't see any mention of forward-word etc no
longer being safe in NEWS.)