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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
Date: | Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:12:07 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/50.0 |
On 07.11.2016 17:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
It's natural if `thing-at-point' returns the thing as a string. When the user don't want a string then s?he can use the specific functions, like `number-at-point' or `list-at-point'.Isn't that completely backward-incompatible?
When thing is a number? Maybe. I don't imagine it's used very often.
If so, I don't think we can do that.
It's pretty clearly a bug: most other "things" behave otherwise (list, sexp, symbol). I'd very much rather we didn't retain conceptual problems like that just for the sake of compatibility.
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