Subject: Re: bug#41761: [PATCH] bug#41761: 28.0.50; M-x count-words counts words only up to a field boundary

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:30:35 +0300

> From: Daniel Koning <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:44:52 -0500
> 
> this doesn't look like one of those, only (you might say literally)
> an overlooked edge case.

We have no reliable way of determining whether that is the case.
backward-compatibility is important in a veteran package such as
Emacs, so we generally try at least to give users who want previous
behavior a fire escape.