current-word and eldoc.el

[Satyaki Das]

A recent change in semantics of the function current-word,
specifically the change mentioned in:

   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-commit/2003-07/msg00108.html

breaks eldoc for all functions that have hyphens in the name. The
patch to eldoc.el at the end of this email fixes this.

An alternative could be to make the definition of current-word
backwards compatible with the old definition. That might avoid
similar problems else where.

Satyaki

Index: eldoc.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -r1.25 eldoc.el
--- eldoc.el    6 May 2003 17:36:16 -0000       1.25
+++ eldoc.el    14 Jul 2003 06:07:15 -0000
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
   (let ((c (char-after (point))))
     (and c
          (memq (char-syntax c) '(?w ?_))
-         (intern-soft (current-word)))))
+         (intern-soft (current-word nil t)))))
 
 ;; Do indirect function resolution if possible.
 (defun eldoc-symbol-function (fsym)