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Subject: 29.0.60; Breaking change in forward-sentence/backward-sentence

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Cc: simenheg <at> runbox.com, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr, 62027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62027: Subject: 29.0.60; Breaking change in forward-sentence/backward-sentence
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:07:24 +0200

> Cc: simenheg <at> runbox.com, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:03:45 +0100
> From:  Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg <at> runbox.com> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Or could perhaps the change in return values from
> >> `forward-sentence'/`backward-sentence' be reverted to old behavior, and
> >> the counting logic be left to `count-sentences' instead?
> >
> > Hi Simen,
> >
> > Yes maybe I could change `count-sentences' a bit to do this.  What
> > others think of such a change?
> 
> I'm all for reverting to the traditional return values of the sentence
> commands, specially if they don't complicate the new command much.  The
> return value was not documented, but Hyrum's Law
> (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/) tells us that there is an unknown amount of
> code out there that depends on the traditional return value, anyway.

Agreed.

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