Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point

[Juri Linkov]

>> But the same can happen with a list/string enclosed within a defun, or
>> a word enclosed withing a string or a list.  Do we also need
>> defun-or-string or list-or-string-or-word or any other combinations?
>
> An alternative would be to add a new thing-at-point target 'string'
> instead of 'list-or-string'.  But since there is no such function as
> 'up-string' that would work like 'up-list' but only to go out of the
> enclosing string and not out of a list, so what remains to do is
> to use 'up-list' with the non-nil arg NO-SYNTAX-CROSSING, therefore
> the new target 'list-or-string'.

So now I reverted 'list-or-string', and added 'string' instead.

BTW, it seems there is a bug in thing-at-point--end-of-sexp,
but I'm not sure if this is a correct fix:

diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el
index efe33982c3..3d2ea9dedf 100644
--- a/lisp/thingatpt.el
+++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el
@@ -241,7 +261,7 @@ in-string-p
 
 (defun thing-at-point--end-of-sexp ()
   "Move point to the end of the current sexp."
-  (let ((char-syntax (syntax-after (point))))
+  (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-after))))
     (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\))
            (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (nth 3 (syntax-ppss))))
        (forward-char 1)
--