bug#58091: 28.2.50; Unexpected thing-at-point URL in eww input field

bug#58091: 28.2.50; Unexpected thing-at-point URL in eww input field

[Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

I see the following in Emacs 28 and 29 but not in 27 or 26:

0. emacs -Q
1. M-x eww RET https://gnu.org/cgi-bin/estseek.cgi RET
2. TAB TAB
   [Point is now in the input field.]
3. M-: (thing-at-point 'url) RET

This gives:

  (input
   ((type . "text")
    (name . "phrase")
    (value . "")
    (size . "80")
    (id . "phrase")
    (class . "text")
    (tabindex . "1")
    (accesskey . "0")))

Whereas I'd expect a string or nil.

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 28.2.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2022-09-13 built on tia
Repository revision: 2cdb9d03fd28138f079cfe5c788d860beb9ea7c2
Repository branch: wt/emacs-28
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101004
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid

Configured using:
 'configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -ggdb3' --prefix=/home/blc/.local
 --program-suffix=-28 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 --enable-check-lisp-object-type --with-file-notification=yes
 --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-x'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY
INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XPM LUCID ZLIB

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  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
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Major mode: eww

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  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
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  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
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  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
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bug#58091: 28.2.50; Unexpected thing-at-point URL in eww input field

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> I see the following in Emacs 28 and 29 but not in 27 or 26:
>
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x eww RET https://gnu.org/cgi-bin/estseek.cgi RET
> 2. TAB TAB
>    [Point is now in the input field.]
> 3. M-: (thing-at-point 'url) RET
>
> This gives:
>
>   (input
>    ((type . "text")
>     (name . "phrase")
>     (value . "")
>     (size . "80")
>     (id . "phrase")
>     (class . "text")
>     (tabindex . "1")
>     (accesskey . "0")))
>
> Whereas I'd expect a string or nil.

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.