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

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From: Daniel Koning <dk <at> danielkoning.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 14:44:18 -0500

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

> Is something wrong or inaccurate with the text I proposed for NEWS?

Based on other NEWS entries, and the discussion earlier in this thread
of Stefan's original phrasing, I assumed that it was customary to
mention in NEWS that a change fixes a defect (which I believe this one
is, for the reasons I outlined in my last message). If that's not
expected, then it doesn't much matter.

I do think the prior behavior differs somewhat from the way you phrased
it. I would write it as:

    Originally, when 'inhibit-field-text-motion' was nil, 'count-words'
    stopped counting words at the end of the field containing START.

(It didn't ignore text inside fields, but rather text that was not
inside one specific field.)

Daniel

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