From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64739@debbugs.gnu.org, joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in
Subject: bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:14:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rb94ahz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0p1zatl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:52:06 +0300")
On Fri, Jul 21 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> It should use its own function, if you ask me. forward-word is a
>> kludge.
>
> To clarify: I meant that using forward-word in this case is a kludge.
I am not familiar with how forward-thing is implemented. A dedicated
function has been my personal solution for this problem that has been
serving me well for many years. So one can rephrase: How common a
problem is this that it may (not?) justify a solution in the standard
emacs code?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-21 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-20 6:19 bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-20 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:28 ` Roland Winkler
2023-07-21 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 14:14 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2023-07-21 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23 3:36 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-23 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23 19:03 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-24 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-26 12:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-29 23:01 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-22 0:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
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