bug#42483: 26.1: thing-at-point doesn't recognize org-link urls

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

jao <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> Excelent, thanks a lot.  I am not sure whether thing-at-point already
> has that, but it'd then be useful to be able to retrieve, together with
> the thing-at-point, its category (and even also have a thing/s/-at-point
> returning all detected things).  

I'm not sure I follow you here -- you call thing at point with the
category (or "thing", as thingatpt calls it) as the parameter:

(thing-at-point 'url)

thingatpt doesn't try to guess at what type of thing exists under point,
just what the thing is.

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