From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, yantar92@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 21:01:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r0eda4bx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e90cc2ee-4c30-270d-d601-474aa901d3b7@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Tue, 7 May 2024 09:10:59 -0700)
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 09:10:59 -0700
> Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>
> On 5/7/2024 5:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I disagree. These functions are nowadays the basis of many
> > interactive features, and users are usually mightily confused by the
> > fine print of what "at point" means technically in Emacs. The current
> > operation is much easier for users to grasp mentally by observing the
> > position of the cursor, whether it's on or just after the "thing".
>
> At the risk of veering off-topic (I mainly care about adding
> 'bounds-of-thing-at-point-provider-alist' and
> 'forward-thing-provider-alist'), would adding a new optional STRICT
> argument to 'thing-at-point' and friends be an ok resolution for
> everyone? This argument would enable Drew's proposed behavior. That way,
> users get all the nice behavior by default just like today, and
> programmers who require strict correctness in their code also have an
> option.
If enough people want the other behavior, I won't object to supporting
that as well as an option.
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2023-11-06 20:11 ` Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point) Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-06 20:53 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-05 15:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-05 22:44 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-05 22:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-06 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 12:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-06 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 12:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-12 22:30 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-29 4:26 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-29 18:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-30 4:42 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-30 11:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-30 18:27 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-30 21:10 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-05-07 1:08 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2024-05-07 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 15:16 ` Drew Adams
2024-05-07 16:10 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-18 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-20 1:34 ` Jim Porter
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