From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
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 18:13:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a8ie7exh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37a9ccfc-35f9-b8a4-77c9-61a6c3cd02bc@easy-emacs.de> (message from Andreas Röhler on Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:07:52 +0200)
> Cc: 9300@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:07:52 +0200
>
> >> 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?
Emacs does this all the time. It's called DWIM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 15:13 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
2016-06-21 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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