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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9300@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:07:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37a9ccfc-35f9-b8a4-77c9-61a6c3cd02bc@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k2hi7lks.fsf@gnu.org>



On 21.06.2016 14:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:14:22 +0200
>>
>> On 20.06.2016 22:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:50:27 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>>>> Cc: f92capac@gmail.com, 9300@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, I agree with Dmitry: this has been a de-facto behavior long
>>>>> enough to consider it the correct one. If documentation is confusing
>>>>> in that it says otherwise, we should fix the documentation.
>>>> I couldn't disagree more.
>>>>
>>>> It is wrong to consider the current behavior "the correct one",
>>>> regardless of how long it has been in place.  It is wrong because
>>>> you cannot use it in a general and precise way.  It is just broken.
>>>> It has been broken for a long time, but it is broken nevertheless.
>>> That's immaterial.  It is being used in many places, and it's
>>> obviously useful.
>> It is useful, but not in the way of the lemma "at-point". At-point means
>> at cursor-position.
> Yes, the de-facto behavior is actually "at or around point".

In what programming language users will be satisfied with results which 
are correct or just a little bit false?
Well, assume there are some - so Emacs entered the area of AI :)





  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-21 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-14 22:36 bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING Drew Adams
2016-06-20  9:21 ` Tino Calancha
2016-06-20 12:53   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-20 13:11     ` Tino Calancha
2016-06-20 14:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21  3:01     ` Tino Calancha
     [not found]   ` <<8337o79arh.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-06-20 17:50     ` Drew Adams
2016-06-20 18:38       ` Andreas Röhler
2016-06-20 20:04       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21  6:14         ` Andreas Röhler
2016-06-21 12:50           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 13:07             ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2016-06-21 15:13               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 13:31             ` Drew Adams
2016-06-21 15:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 13:25           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <<<8337o79arh.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]     ` <<0e2c9c67-12a2-4712-92d2-e3c204f46838@default>
     [not found]       ` <<83twgn7hjx.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-06-20 23:34         ` Drew Adams
2016-06-20 23:59           ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-21  0:47             ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<B1052724B2D446C59E233FC1BD437723@us.oracle.com>
2015-07-29  1:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-15 13:33   ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23  1:01     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-23  6:37       ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23  7:59         ` Andreas Röhler
2016-02-23 10:22         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-23 16:15           ` Drew Adams
2016-02-24  0:52             ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-24  1:31               ` Drew Adams
2016-02-26  1:03                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-26  1:44                   ` Drew Adams
2016-02-26 10:15                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-26 14:39                       ` Drew Adams
2016-02-26 15:25                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-26 17:00                           ` Drew Adams
2022-04-28 11:24       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 15:49         ` Drew Adams

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