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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

<spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> I noticed this bug because it breaks expanding abbrevs at the beginning
> of the line.  E.g. you've just pressed 'R' to reply with quoting the
> original message in Gnus, and point is at the beginning of the first
> quoted line.  Then if you type a word that is the key for an abbrev, and
> then whitespace, it won't expand.  I wonder if that can be fixed without
> losing the benefits of João's change.

I'm not quite sure the change makes all that much sense.  If you have
this:

---
foo

> bar

zot
---

with point after foo, `M-C-f' takes you to the end of zot, which is
surprising.

I guess the idea is that you'd never want to edit quoted text?

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