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| From: | Daniel Koning |
| Subject: | bug#41761: [PATCH] bug#41761: 28.0.50; M-x count-words counts words only up to a field boundary |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:44:52 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.91 (darwin) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: >> > This change in behavior should be in NEWS. And I'm not sure >> > we shouldn't provide an optional knob to get back the old behavior: >> > some package or user might rely on it. >> >> I don't think I agree. > > It's okay to disagree, but I still think it should be in NEWS. Excuse my imprecision in quoting you; I don't object to the change going into NEWS. I just meant to contend that the old behavior shouldn't be enshrined in a customization item or anything like that. Some deeply rooted bugs become load-bearing over time, but this doesn't look like one of those, only (you might say literally) an overlooked edge case.
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