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bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:13:46 +0200 |
> Cc: tino.calancha@gmail.com, 21391@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:19:00 +0200
>
> > We'd also lose something else: some Lisp objects can be printed, but
> > their printed representation cannot be read back. So for some
> > objects, requiring thing-at-point to return a string would lose
> > information.
>
> We won't lose that if we go with either of my proposals: instead of
> printing objects inside the thing-at-point function, we would require
> that each returned thing is a string already.
But that's exactly my point: you cannot usefully return some objects
as strings. Their text representation is much less useful than the
object itself.
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, (continued)
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/07
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Tino Calancha, 2016/11/08
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/08
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/08
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/08
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Andreas Röhler, 2016/11/09
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/09
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/09
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Tino Calancha, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Tino Calancha, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/11