Re: master b21015c: Clarify project-find-file doc string

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.11.2020 23:51, Drew Adams wrote:
> > There's no such thing as "string at point" in
> > Emacs. Or under point, or around point, etc.
> > Not without specifying what kind of string it must be.
>
> Why do you think so?

Because it's ill-defined, without extra details specified.

> `ffap-string-at-point':
> Return a string of characters from around point.
>
> `comint-extract-string':
> Return string around point, or nil.

Have you noticed that these two functions implement two entirely 
different notions of "string at point"?

> ___
>
> My library thingatpt+.el defines these, based
> loosely on `comint-extract-string':
>
> `string-at-point'
> `string-nearest-point'
> `string-contents-at-point'
> `string-contents-nearest-point'
>
> The last two are the same as the first two,
> except they don't include the string delimiters.
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/thingatpt%2b.el

And these obviously deal with the other kind of "string at point", not 
the one Lars referred to in the new docstring.