From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: 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, 23 Feb 2016 08:59:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CC1175.3080101@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a64315c-fc72-42bd-a6cf-0fa43414daa6@default>
On 23.02.2016 07:37, Drew Adams wrote:
>> I'm not sure it should be fixed. Your reasoning seems valid,
>> however by now this behavior is ingrained into my expectations
>> of how thing-at-point should behave.
>>
>> This would be a breaking change. For instance, it will make
>> (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol) unsuitable for use in a
>> completion-at-point-functions element,
> Why do you think so? Have you tried it? It does not affect
> the behavior for THING = `symbol' at all.
>
>> to compute the first two values of the returned list, because
>> during completion you're most often "after" the symbol.
> So? Not a problem. Put point after a symbol - you get the
> same answer as now.
>
>> And I do use it for that purpose in one third-party package.
>>
>> emacs-eclim also uses it in
>> eclim-java-show-documentation-for-current-element. At the
>> very least, this will change the existing behavior.
> This is the design of the thingatpt code, and the reason why
> `<=' instead of `<' is a bug:
>
> the function that is (get THING 'end-op) moves PAST the THING,
> so that point is not on the THING. This is true generally, no
> matter the type of THING.
>
>
>
That what I changed at
https://github.com/andreas-roehler/thing-at-point-utils
ar-forward-list-atpt would stop at closing paren, not one char after as
forward-sexp would do.
Char after FORM in not considered inside in sense of at-point.
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[not found] <<B1052724B2D446C59E233FC1BD437723@us.oracle.com>
2015-07-29 1:44 ` bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING 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 [this message]
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
2011-08-14 22:36 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
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
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