From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31772: 26.1; (thing-at-point 'list) regression Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:31:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3c8mo40.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838t7msmy1.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1r6acqo.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536654669 28388 195.159.176.226 (11 Sep 2018 08:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 31772@debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 10:31:05 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fze4e-0007HS-Lo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:31:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fze6l-0007Pb-8P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5d-0006en-2Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5Z-0002jD-V5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5Z-0002j5-Qk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5Z-0006WH-Mp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:32:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31772 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 31772-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31772.153665471325044 (code B ref 31772); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31772) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2018 08:31:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36125 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5R-0006Vs-G7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:31:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46946) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5Q-0006Vf-5g for 31772@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5J-0002eR-2m for 31772@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5B-0002cg-CX; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4663 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fze5A-0000ai-Cs; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:31:37 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Leo Liu on Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:37:11 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:150212 Archived-At: > From: Leo Liu > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Tino Calancha > Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:37:11 +0800 > > I have been using 26.1 as my main editor for the last few months and > this breakage remains a pain point in my day-to-day editing. For example > whenever I rewrite a function, I normally comment out the old one (to > keep the linter, pretty-printer or whatnot happy) and write the new one > from scratch, occasionally copy things from the old one to save typing > and this bug gets in the way many times a day. I propose a patch that > doesn't divert too much from the old and tried behaviour. Thanks. Can you summarize how the behavior with your patch will be different from what we had in Emacs 25 and before? > The idea that is currently in thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point is > fine for a higher level function such as list-at-point but doing it > there affects all functions that build on it including some from > thingatpt.el itself. Would it be possible to modify list-at-point so that it keeps the current behavior, perhaps as an option? I'd like to find a solution that doesn't just revert to the old behavior, but allows those who need the new behavior to have it in some reasonable way. Thanks.