GNU bug report logs - #41761
28.0.50; M-x count-words counts words only up to a field boundary

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Message #18 received at 41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet <at> gmail.com, dk <at> danielkoning.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 14:08:18 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:58:19 -0700
> Cc: 41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
> 
> >> 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.

Thanks.  This change in behavior should be in NEWS.  And I'm not sure
we shouldn't provide an optional knob to get back the old behavior:
some package or user might rely on it.

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