bug#56432: run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 12:47:42 +0200
> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 
> 56432@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > run-dig seems to be able to guess the host using
> > net-utils-machine-at-point, something 'dig' doesn't.  So if we want to
> > tell people top use the latter, IMO we should teach 'dig' that trick.
> 
> net-utils-machine-at-point does not seem very useful to me (it seems
> to pick up any word whether or not it looks like a domain name?)

Is it really any worse than not showing any possibly useful default at
all?

> but perhaps we could use thing-at-point instead?

If thing-at-point can guess machines better, sure, why not?  But if it
isn't better, why not use net-utils-machine-at-point?