From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:30:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0a68c2ae-0940-4e2c-8b3c-1faceb45c43c@default> <6d4d9469-5698-d522-ac3d-3f540b1c14b3@easy-emacs.de> <295cccf3-bb80-4cde-bcdb-5137333cc1ed@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478510620 11962 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 09:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 09:23:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 Cc: 21391@debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 10:23:35 2016 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 1c3g8y-0007as-SL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:22:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:u/s42JXNb7Hu8YC+XkiokPDd5Vyqy8uVrHzWR35lxQc7LIDkWi/ fHvrRUr5BibtIf+lRJMAID24VJzLo8n34Ywd8aboFPRzVAopQQCoCufrrJnJsT0GwK0DKxE 9iZtWS5CX0UEh0+GsdgkoIjDgf8G/sjSC6nftzFiZheZNabATjd2vvtGVh4ZnAdIpFXlUAH e/oH4B2hjS/daGRklBn8A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:SGxr0F2L8dU=:lXS/gzVtBC0YE/ca+ZNevF rOHdJnWVb25VMWUoQF8mYLsPQkD8q7agiCXn0kVncnBGtRJTzFhFujMuc6bAvQmxvIcJqcqgx YbKt5yAvRcbmN1YdQiDysn49IgWWkxMG+VD1RLyleXOy0o18X2LYLYNty392Ifv/HtraeDiM8 1HbW1+C4X3xIW/JEFNFQ88QS60EPA3+n2uYh0itbdeh2VLgjplk7VntumxRBbC+JS9MRrujNP q7tW279p+WBBllTQzNsRQP3tGo63nanb5HBM6X/KmvFFLs9P8Ri5gsCmu6ia8qPCKgbPA35jB UxBh1SLQILDnvXcB6lCg1pIoGzYed7iD5Is1aumio78aKdk0vuE9VlDFEhCG1nCvm193FtP4C P82BKXM9EqsF/bPH+or4Q4HUWhHaYoaSp3DCxyDYySX8+7vjCAi21ql79FTFYW9ZtXIJ2zFi7 KGzwEZ+WpSmaVk1yQNl+eCNW6qVaz4pPM9YRGGD/ENcuX36yl4QukNKigCmrMOG/7l4A92iS+ D4YCq/rRD7hwFi2gnkevg2sJGGirlHcmGs/s0lr5d7SD2Q7sBpex8Z2HLwJyYHX4HWvXCujTi qlayVRwj/2vs26MLeKyzhE6qUJlRU2vj7HDTIjFoZl7fPYUv16Mbjha9ZCjvEl4WzJKIfVajZ 2FrTXInQ4dISnD7mTP8h4uJguRIdLs/ckYtc76IZAwt1o6YKS7s1lIXz5yR5Rw6xrKISozau+ AdzhRq5JC+clZbPK 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:125414 Archived-At: On 04.11.2016 21:21, Drew Adams wrote: >>> Is there a need to pick symbols from a buffer as symbols? >>> Don't know. My use-case is editing and strings are the suitable >>> format. >> Of course there is. And not just symbols, but numbers, lists... > Sorry for the confusion. I was thinking of `list-at-point' etc., > and not `thing-at-point', which always returns a string (or it > should, at least - see my previous msg). AFAIU the symbol-at-point-as-symbol idea and thing-at-point are two different conceptions. BTW can't see a use-case of form-at-point for know - while having some in mind ;) Thanks, Andreas