Re: Should not syntax for ?- char be word in text mode?

[Miles Bader]

No.  Doing so would massively fuck with people's expectations.

It's long-standing Emacs practice to distinguish between "words" and
"symbols", where symbols typically include some extra punctuation such
as "-".

If I see "foo-bar" in _any_ buffer, including in text, I (and perhaps
more importantly, my fingers) expect M-f to skip over foo, and stop at
"-"; if I want to skip over the whole thing, I'll use C-M-f.  Using
modes that violate this convention is extremely disconcerting (and
inconvenient).  Text buffers are no different in this respect.

-Miles

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