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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 37334-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37334: 26.3; doc string of `backward-word'
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 22:11:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgp753cp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eab9c396-a7d9-4879-82f7-b6683e49a9af@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 7 Sep 2019 11:58:08 -0700 (PDT))

tags 37334 notabug
thanks

> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 11:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> This paragraph does not belong in the doc string of `backward-word':
> 
>  The word boundaries are normally determined by the buffer's
>  syntax table and character script (according to
>  'char-script-table'), but 'find-word-boundary-function-table',
>  such as set up by 'subword-mode', can change that.  If a Lisp
>  program needs to move by words determined strictly by the syntax
>  table, it should use 'backward-word-strictly' instead.  See Info
>  node '(elisp) Word Motion' for details.

I see no reason to claim this "doesn't belong", as it clearly _is_
relevant to word movement.  See also bug#22560 for some additional
background.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-07 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-07 18:58 bug#37334: 26.3; doc string of `backward-word' Drew Adams
2019-09-07 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <<eab9c396-a7d9-4879-82f7-b6683e49a9af@default>
     [not found] ` <<83sgp753cp.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-09-08  0:50   ` Drew Adams
2019-09-08 12:40     ` Noam Postavsky

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