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Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?
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Raffaele Ricciardi |
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Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour? |
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Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:00:16 +0100 |
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On 08/15/2012 07:34 PM, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <a926tjFeslU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> the documentation of `thing-at-point' states that such function
returns "the
>> thing around or next to point". This is not the case with either
>> (thing-at-point
>> 'symbol) or (thing-at-point 'sexp), for they both may return the thing
>> before
>> point. Try it with the following snippet (! symbolizes the point):
>
> Doesn't "next to" include both immediately before and immediately after?
I stand corrected after having consulted a dictionary. Then it is
(thing-at-point 'list) that is misbehaving.
>
>>
>> A!
>> (A)!
>>
>> On the contrary, (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'list) returns nil as
>> expected in this
>> snippet:
>>
>> (A)!
>>
>> Is this inconsistent behaviour or am I missing something?
>>
>> Tested on GNU Emacs 24.1 started with "emacs -Q".
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> I think this is a problem with the thing-at-point handler for 'list.
> It's doing some weird stuff, that I think is intended to distinguide
> lists from sexps.
Aren't lists sexps as well?
- thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Raffaele Ricciardi, 2012/08/15
- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Barry Margolin, 2012/08/15
- RE: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Drew Adams, 2012/08/15
- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?,
Raffaele Ricciardi <=
- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Andreas Röhler, 2012/08/16
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- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Barry Margolin, 2012/08/16
- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Andreas Röhler, 2012/08/16
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- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Raffaele Ricciardi, 2012/08/16
- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Barry Margolin, 2012/08/16
- RE: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Drew Adams, 2012/08/16
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- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Barry Margolin, 2012/08/16
- RE: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Drew Adams, 2012/08/17
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- Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Raffaele Ricciardi, 2012/08/17
- RE: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?, Drew Adams, 2012/08/19