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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Koning <dk <at> danielkoning.com>
Cc: 41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet <at> gmail.com
Subject: 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 16:06:30 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It's okay to disagree, but I still think it should be in NEWS.  It's a
> change in a long-standing behavior, so users should be told about it.

I'm not sure how to best formulate the NEWS.

Does this look okay?

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 53e60cdb5c..b375fef5b7 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ setting the variable 'auto-save-visited-mode'
buffer-locally to nil.
 description of the properties.  Likewise 'button-describe' does the
 same for a button.

+---
+** 'count-words' now skips field boundaries.
+Before, 'count-words' incorrectly stopped counting the number of words
+in buffer at a field boundary.  This bug has been fixed.
+
 
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 28.1

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