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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 16:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Koning <dk <at> danielkoning.com>
Cc: 41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, 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: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:30:35 +0300

> From: Daniel Koning <dk <at> danielkoning.com>
> Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se,  41761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  pipcet <at> gmail.com
> 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.
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