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29.0.50; backward-word doesn't move far enough in message-mode

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>, 56384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56384: 29.0.50; backward-word doesn't move far enough in
 message-mode
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:44:40 +0200

<spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:

> I noticed this bug because it breaks expanding abbrevs at the beginning
> of the line.  E.g. you've just pressed 'R' to reply with quoting the
> original message in Gnus, and point is at the beginning of the first
> quoted line.  Then if you type a word that is the key for an abbrev, and
> then whitespace, it won't expand.  I wonder if that can be fixed without
> losing the benefits of João's change.

I'm not quite sure the change makes all that much sense.  If you have
this:

---
foo

> bar

zot
---

with point after foo, `M-C-f' takes you to the end of zot, which is
surprising.

I guess the idea is that you'd never want to edit quoted text?

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