From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for thingatpt.el Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <004901c8c814$09e47f50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <200806071419.57828.andreas.roehler@online.de> <001301c8c8e2$5b51c9f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212895079 6557 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 03:17:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 03:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Andreas_R=F6hler'?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 05:18:41 2008 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 1K5BQV-0008IE-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:18:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5BPi-0002VR-LF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5BPd-0002VC-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5BPc-0002V0-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50658 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5BPc-0002Ux-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:15819) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5BPb-0008OK-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:44 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AikCAILsSkjO+ISodGdsb2JhbACBVJAzASebYw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,607,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="22278693" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 07 Jun 2008 23:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.132.168]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id OJZ21043; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5DC0E8864; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:17:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <001301c8c8e2$5b51c9f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:06:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:98661 Archived-At: > See the recent bug with subject "describe-* and M-x should see past > quote mark" as an example. Stefan presumably (I haven't checked) > fixed this by maneuvering around a quote mark at point, to get to the > symbol. That kind of maneuvering is unnecessary as a one-off fix if > you just use `*-nearest-point'. Actually, that's a bad example: the code already did the right thing, but some part of it was not run with the proper syntax-table. Stefan