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28.0.50; M-x count-words counts words only up to a field boundary

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Message #15 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Daniel Koning <dk <at> danielkoning.com>
Cc: 41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#41761: [PATCH] bug#41761: 28.0.50; M-x count-words counts
 words only up to a field boundary
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:58:19 -0700

close 41761 28.1
thanks

Daniel Koning <dk <at> danielkoning.com> writes:

> Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Expected result:
>>
>> message "Region has 1 line, 10 words, and 50 characters"
>>
>> Actual result:
>>
>> message "Region has 1 line, 1 word, and 50 characters"
>
> `count-words' should be disabling field-boundary behavior in
> `forward-word-strictly' by setting `inhibit-field-text-motion'. Patch
> included.

Thanks for the patch.  It looks good to me so I pushed it as commit
c560ba3036d8.  I also pushed a regression test for this bug separately.

Closing this bug now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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