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[PATCH] Make forward and backward-to-word arg optional

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Message #17 received at 63626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Zaz Brown <zazbrown <at> zazbrown.com>
Cc: dalanicolai <at> gmail.com, 63626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63626: [PATCH] Make forward and backward-to-word arg optional
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 08:16:53 +0300

> From: Zaz Brown <zazbrown <at> zazbrown.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 11:39:35 -0700
> Cc: dalanicolai <at> gmail.com, 63626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 12:02 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > But I'm still not convinced we need to change the signature of the
> > function.  What are the use cases where you'd want to pass
> > forward-to-word as a function argument to another function?
> 
> I can't think of a good example and wasn't able to find an example of
> a forward-to-word lambda on GitHub code search.  So perhaps I'm
> mistaken that this would be useful.  I'll have to leave that
> discussion to those who are more familiar with Emacs and Lisp.

Thanks.

Does anyone else here have an opinion on this changeset?

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