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`progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50731: `progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:04:04 +0200

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

> I read this as the issue you'd like to solve: to prevent checkdoc from
> flagging this as a mistake.  Was I misinterpreting your report?

No, I guess this bug report touched on several different things is all.

It seems productive to focus the discussion on checkdoc as you suggest.

> IOW, I see no reason whatsoever to believe backward-sexp is the
> problem here.  The problem is in checkdoc, and IMO should be solved
> there.

True.  I guess it makes sense to just use 'backward-word' instead.
Unless anyone has any better suggestions, I will try this approach and
see how well it works in practice.

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