GNU bug report logs - #40460
26.3; Make arg of `forward-whitespace' and `forward-symbol' optional

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 00:33:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 25439

Found in versions 24.5, 26.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 40460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40460: 26.3; Make arg of `forward-whitespace' and `forward-symbol' optional
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 17:32:27 -0700 (PDT)

I see no reason why these commands are handled differently from
`forward-sexp', `forward-word', etc.  Why is their arg not optional?

That makes no difference when they are used interactively, but for Lisp
code, why not make they be like other `forward-<thing>' functions?




In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18362
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 134 days ago.

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