From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: symbol-at-point Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87sl7brxa4.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> References: <200707261107.29692.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185464286 27987 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2007 15:38:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:38:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 17:38:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IE5Pd-0007S9-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:38:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5Pa-000861-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5PX-00085w-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5PV-00084z-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5PV-00084g-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IE5PU-0003E0-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5PQ-00021q-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:48 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-084-063-001-003.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.63.1.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:48 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by dslb-084-063-001-003.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-063-001-003.pools.arcor-ip.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEVWVlFmseNrkqmgzeif v9JYdoX7Ctb5AAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABqUlE QVQ4y8WTy3KkMAxFVQT2Iz/2QOAD3CZ7jNV7YNr//ysjmWcqlUWyGVU11dzjK9myAPwm4P8A963D /TCV06dDeURzkQug8fFm8OYAIT5afRI/DAfQNbzcvhnn/Ud1gD/wTl7rvFHvNc7Fo2GgFJTRe8dA ay/gCV121NAZJto50TlhB0VgQFD4QCwNTMWAZgRCUCOUaMTCMGYHjvBihwC2xYmIoh+It2BZgozR Qo6K6he3oc1g5oTYjRsp4c1ha6BgwG8BSUCZH4SkoApgZigbnEaRBG+rignUDNUQROLiBCwh8dpJ istayMcfQDgrXEN9wB47kM3BwsXNDfjjv7SEi3wBuVfY7UQ6xQeRoNzdhiZeThugh5x/A9gEosHn 3ub+xtCc40OH6ocg8jVXelssj8+TKO+G73a/kRtgk0ySzMk9VYwhSEKDcvcXCFPgIW1aZVYey3AB 3fZpSctqU/FMf68a5rkWfaqWNbV1vya6QN83tWVPpeq6mpcTPNaEKfVpndXcV+kCtufsaeYsrKa0 niDZVi02Wf6lpb05cthffufLTxyfi/wD4S56Bxo/ZasAAAAmelRYdENvbW1lbnQAAHjacy5KTSxJ TVEozyzJUAjJSFVw9/QNAABS5wcjkMtlcAAAABp6VFh0anBlZzpjb2xvcnNwYWNlAAB42jMCAAAz ADOJOCM1AAAAJnpUWHRqcGVnOnNhbXBsaW5nLWZhY3RvcgAAeNozqjDSMawwBGEAEYMC6T2XL08A AAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rEdE8ADebiGQDcKUmHs5pwOa3uA= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75579 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler writes: > AFAIU implementation of `symbol-at-point' is not straightforward in > relation with other thing at point functions: > > These return THING as a substring of buffer, doing nothing else, Yeah, because most THINGs are strings. An url is a string, a filename is a string, ... > whereas symbol-at-point interns existing THING unconditionally Well, the THING symbol clearly is not a string. > Wouldn't it be more clean to write a separate (intern SYMBOL-at-point) > function, if someone wants to do that? It would be very confusing if a function named `symbol-at-point' wouldn't return a symbol (or nil if there's no symbol at point). Bye, Tassilo -- The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. (Richard M. Stallman)