From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37334: 26.3; doc string of `backward-word' Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 22:11:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83sgp753cp.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="259331"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37334-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 07 21:12:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g84-0015JJ-Ji for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 21:12:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36806 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g83-00023w-Hb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g7w-00022G-2q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g7u-0008Ku-UZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g7u-0008Kd-S3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g7u-0001YG-Lt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:12:02 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 19:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 37334 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Mail-Followup-To: 37334@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com Original-Received: via spool by 37334-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D37334.15678834685847 (code D ref 37334); Sat, 07 Sep 2019 19:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37334-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2019 19:11:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38081 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g72-0001WA-EA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43249) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g6z-0001VR-VV; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:11:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g6u-0007LF-Cr; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4251 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i6g6t-00038P-Oc; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:11:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 7 Sep 2019 11:58:08 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:166277 Archived-At: tags 37334 notabug thanks > Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 11:58:08 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > This paragraph does not belong in the doc string of `backward-word': > > The word boundaries are normally determined by the buffer's > syntax table and character script (according to > 'char-script-table'), but 'find-word-boundary-function-table', > such as set up by 'subword-mode', can change that. If a Lisp > program needs to move by words determined strictly by the syntax > table, it should use 'backward-word-strictly' instead. See Info > node '(elisp) Word Motion' for details. I see no reason to claim this "doesn't belong", as it clearly _is_ relevant to word movement. See also bug#22560 for some additional background.