GNU bug report logs - #17558
24.4.50; global-subword-mode breaks ERC

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>

Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 20347

Found in versions 24.4.50, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 17558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>,
 17558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17558: 24.4.50; global-subword-mode breaks ERC
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.)
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