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

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From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: simenheg <at> runbox.com, 62027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#62027: Subject: 29.0.60; Breaking change in
 forward-sentence/backward-sentence
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:07:14 +0100

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

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>> 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.

Ok.  I've tried to fix this.  I've done some testing, it works for me™.
If it is ok, I think it should go in emacs-29 (if this is still
possible).

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-- 
Manuel Giraud

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