From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Zaz Brown <zazbrown@zazbrown.com>
Cc: dalanicolai@gmail.com, 63626@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63626: [PATCH] Make forward and backward-to-word arg optional
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 14:24:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zg5rjpyf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACTmS+hsinyhZh0EyHtNis5-ywSY27QiY+sV4TwO5iapjRhDcA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Zaz Brown on Sat, 20 May 2023 21:33:51 -0700)
> Cc: dalanicolai@gmail.com
> From: Zaz Brown <zazbrown@zazbrown.com>
> Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 21:33:51 -0700
>
> (forward-to-word) throws (wrong-number-of-arguments forward-to-word 0)
> in spite of the doc string stating:
>
> > Move forward until encountering the beginning of a word.
> > With argument, do this that many times.
>
> This behaviour is present in Spacemacs 28.2, and has been confirmed by
> Daniel Nicolai on Emacs 30. It's also evident in the latest source code.
>
> The same issue exists for (backward-to-word). But running each command
> with M-x works with no argument.
Thank you for your report.
Please tell why you think we should allow non-interactive invocation
of these functions with no argument. IOW, what exactly is wrong with
the current code, and in what situations you have found this to be a
problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-26 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-21 4:33 bug#63626: [PATCH] Make forward and backward-to-word arg optional Zaz Brown
2023-05-26 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <CACTmS+g93z7ns6AD9v-a+-TRVkVuTLt5RGi5YVTGUA8J1BM3dw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-05-27 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-27 18:39 ` Zaz Brown
2023-05-28 5:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-29 15:24 ` dalanicolai
2023-05-29 16:46 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-31 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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