From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 21391@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:36:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tsmhy54.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b53b5039-cbe1-e154-2ab7-e3482a7546fa@easy-emacs.de> (message from Andreas Röhler on Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:26:54 +0100)
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:26:54 +0100
>
> IMHO the current design is really confusing and shouldn't be kept.
IMNSHO it would be madness to make incompatible changes 20 years after
the code was admitted into Emacs.
> if (get thing 'thing-at-point)
> (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point))
>
> AFAIU an arbitrary function might be stored here, no real relation to
> thing-at-point at all.
Correct. We have gobs of functions that can return several different
kinds of objects.
> Next clause deals with buffer-substring - which is thing-at-point about
> in my understanding.
IMO, your understanding is wrong at least since 1997.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-14 15:36 UTC|newest]
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2015-09-01 1:59 bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t Tino Calancha
2015-09-05 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 7:00 ` bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t) Tino Calancha
2016-11-04 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 18:31 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-04 19:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 20:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 9:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-07 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 15:01 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 20:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 3:17 ` bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string Tino Calancha
2016-11-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-07 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 20:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-08 13:15 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-08 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 0:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-09 6:43 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-09 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 23:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 16:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 18:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 21:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-11 10:07 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-11 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 14:13 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-11 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 14:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-11 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 14:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-11 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 15:05 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-14 1:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-14 2:43 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-14 10:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-14 15:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-16 13:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-16 14:45 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-14 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-15 7:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-14 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 18:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-09 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-09 23:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 0:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-10 8:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-24 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2016-11-14 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2016-11-07 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 17:22 ` bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t) Andreas Röhler
2016-11-07 17:37 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-08 8:43 ` Andreas Röhler
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