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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 05 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> 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?

There is a syntax-table property on the first character.

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