bug#56384: 29.0.50; backward-word doesn't move far enough in message-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> 1. emacs -q
> 2. C-x m
> 3. foo>
> 4. C-b
> 5. M-b
>
> Point does not move to the beginning of the line, as one would expect.
>
> If a punctuation character other than '>' is used, it does to go bol.

How strange -- it goes to the second character on the line?  Anybody
know what could be causing this?

I think message-mode is interpreting that foo> as a cited text, but I
don't quite see why that'd make point go to the second column instead of
the first.

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