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bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
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Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:36:07 +0200 |
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:26:54 +0100
>
> IMHO the current design is really confusing and shouldn't be kept.
IMNSHO it would be madness to make incompatible changes 20 years after
the code was admitted into Emacs.
> if (get thing 'thing-at-point)
> (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point))
>
> AFAIU an arbitrary function might be stored here, no real relation to
> thing-at-point at all.
Correct. We have gobs of functions that can return several different
kinds of objects.
> Next clause deals with buffer-substring - which is thing-at-point about
> in my understanding.
IMO, your understanding is wrong at least since 1997.
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, (continued)
- 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, 2016/11/13
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/13
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Andreas Röhler, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Andreas Röhler, 2016/11/16
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/16
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Andreas Röhler, 2016/11/15
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/09
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/09