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Fri, 11 Nov 2016 06:57:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8337iydq8z.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US 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:125620 Archived-At: On 11.11.2016 16:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Improve it by describing whatever it is that is evident from the code > that is not evident from the doc string. So we will enumerate how every built-in "thing" behaves? That still won't account for the third-party ones. > I don't understand why. It's not like we don't have other functions > that can return different kinds of objects. Because there is no rhyme or reason in the current behavior, no matter how you want to look at it. E.g. symbols or sexps are not strings, and yet (thing-at-point 'symbol) and (thing-at-point 'sexp) return strings (or nil).