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bug#16190: 23.4; M-x captialize-word works incorrectly


From: Caleb Wakeman
Subject: bug#16190: 23.4; M-x captialize-word works incorrectly
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:35:41 -0500
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It occurred to me that there may be two separate "bugs", and me conflating them.

First is "M-x capitalize-word has an incorrect docstring". That's been fixed (or I should say, I take your word for it).

Second is "M-x capitalize-word does the wrong thing". Whether that's a bug may be open to debate (I think it is a bug, or at least a problem, obviously), but that hasn't changed.

On 12/22/2013 11:20 PM, Caleb Wakeman wrote:
(paraphrased quotes)
 >>> That's the intended behavior
 >> Then its docstring is incorrect
 > Fair enough, fixed

Erm, well...

I've had several days to think it over, and I don't agree [that it's
fixed].  Yes, the docstring is (was) incorrect; and if it hadn't been
incorrect, I wouldn't have reported it as a bug.

However, the function would still be doing 'The Wrong Thing' (for me, I
can imagine that cases exist where this isn't), and if I ever used it
again, it would only be because I forgot that it didn't do what I expected.

I think this is also the point where if I want something more done, I
really should do it myself.  I'd take it on for sure if it were in
elisp.  I dunno if I could do it in C.

This seems reasonable as a 'workaround' fix, though.

[I'd agree that "Severity: minor" is correct.]

(I can re-create my mental state leading up to actually sending the bug
report, or share my mental image of what the function does, if either of
those would be helpful.)





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