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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Daniel Koning <dk@danielkoning.com>
Cc: 41761@debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet@gmail.com
Subject: bug#41761: [PATCH] bug#41761: 28.0.50; M-x count-words counts words only up to a field boundary
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:06:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkmQHnyKm=Nju-JTz+qg+ucMuQFn2TFitNtUCyMuXVw9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834kp5kpj1.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> It's okay to disagree, but I still think it should be in NEWS.  It's a
> change in a long-standing behavior, so users should be told about it.

I'm not sure how to best formulate the NEWS.

Does this look okay?

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 53e60cdb5c..b375fef5b7 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ setting the variable 'auto-save-visited-mode'
buffer-locally to nil.
 description of the properties.  Likewise 'button-describe' does the
 same for a button.

+---
+** 'count-words' now skips field boundaries.
+Before, 'count-words' incorrectly stopped counting the number of words
+in buffer at a field boundary.  This bug has been fixed.
+
 \f
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 28.1





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-14 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-08 16:52 bug#41761: 28.0.50; M-x count-words counts words only up to a field boundary Pip Cet
2020-06-10 20:15 ` bug#41761: [PATCH] " Daniel Koning
2020-08-14  9:58   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-14 11:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-14 18:48       ` Daniel Koning
2020-08-14 19:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-14 19:44           ` Daniel Koning
2020-08-15  6:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-14 23:06           ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-15 16:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-15 17:44               ` Daniel Koning
2020-08-15 17:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-15 19:44                   ` Daniel Koning
2020-08-16 14:12                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-16 19:04                       ` Daniel Koning
2020-08-16 19:27                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-16 19:37                           ` Daniel Koning
2020-08-17 13:51                           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-17 16:12                             ` Eli Zaretskii

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