From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12692: 24.1; thing-at-point in temp buffer Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:35:18 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350758192 12627 80.91.229.3 (20 Oct 2012 18:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:36:32 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Jerome Truong'" , <12692@debbugs.gnu.org> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 20:36:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TPduW-0003WJ-SV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:36:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPduP-0006YB-LT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:36:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPduM-0006Xr-Kw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPduL-0007GF-Na for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPduL-0007GB-K6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TPdvt-0008RZ-KU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:38:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:38:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12692 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12692-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12692.135075825832425 (code B ref 12692); Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12692) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Oct 2012 18:37:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53478 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TPdvV-0008Qu-At for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:48005) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TPdvR-0008Qf-HM for 12692@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q9KIZooH023428 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:35:51 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9KIZnHl024346 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:35:50 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q9KIZnqi000380; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:35:49 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac2u8Cdm6YQq3UPPSjCXUy/EYAngjAAAMCJA X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:65797 Archived-At: > Why does the following return the whole string "this.is.an.example": > (thing-at-point 'symbol)this.is.an.example > but using a temp buffer only returns "this": Sounds like `.' has `symbol' syntax in the first buffer you used (e.g., Emacs Lisp mode), but not in the temp buffer. The syntax of a char depends on the current mode. See (elisp)`Syntax Tables'.