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From: Daniel Koning <dk@danielkoning.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
	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 13:48:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2imdl83n7.fsf@danielkoning.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imdllc2l.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:08:18 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This change in behavior should be in NEWS.  And I'm not sure
> we shouldn't provide an optional knob to get back the old behavior:
> some package or user might rely on it.

I don't think I agree. The "new" behavior is what the documentation
described to begin with. And it's a complexity burden to solder new
switches onto these simple functions -- more burdensome (I say) than
trusting users to impose the constraint by hand if that's what they
want. Something like:

    (count-words start (min end (field-end start t)))

Daniel





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-14 18:48 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 [this message]
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
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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