Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:

> On 05/23/2014 02:19 AM, Dima Kogan wrote:
>> Hi. I'm using a very recent build of emacs from the VCS. With this build
>> ERC gets very confused if global-subword-mode is on. I believe it worked
>> fine just a few months ago.
>> 
>> Recipe:
>> 
>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. (global-subword-mode)
>> 3. M-x erc
>> 4. Default values for the server, nickname, password, etc are fine to
>> show the issue
>
> Thanks for the repro. This bug is probably due to my changing how
> subword-mode works: now, forward-word will stop at subword boundaries,
> and I'm guessing ERC was relying on the old behavior. I can try to take
> a look at it if nobody who knows ERC better wants to try first.

Here's a patch. It works, but I don't like how un-future-proof it is. An
uncareful coder can simply use (forward-word) somewhere and get things
to break again. Is there a better way?