On 06.06.2022 15:44, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>  writes:
> 
>> Looking at the possible problems, I guess the regexp doesn't account
>> for possible escapings? Like a symbol 'let\ s\ go\ to\ the\ mall',
>> which shouldn't be mistaken for 'let'. That would require a more
>> complex regexp.
> Yes, so that won't be the right thing.  It'd be nice if we had a version
> of `read' that's more like "read the next symbol but return nil if it's
> not interned already" for these cases.

How about this, then?

Too bad 'forward-symbol' doesn't handle escapings, otherwise we could 
just do (intern-soft (thing-at-point 'symbol)).