From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'number) =?utf-8?Q?=E2=87=92?= nil Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:20:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87mtj6iuhw.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30914"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4R+aYHRQrKmXBmS9SvrXJgeIo64= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 04 15:33:17 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzeH-0007qL-M4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:33:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzeG-0002FP-6D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:33:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzSA-0000lv-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzS8-0008RD-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzRi-0001C9-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:20:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135738 Archived-At: tomas wrote: > Note that number isn't among the things mentioned in the > function doc of `bounds-of-thing-at-point'. It is, however > in that of `thing-at-point'. Bug. It doesn't exist - but it should - so it returns nil ... This is what happens when/if you manually have to give data that are the same same, twice. Only input it once, then add 2 or as many references are called for to that data ... > So the behaviour you describe is surprising, but it is > documented :) Anyway the docstring also says: See the file ‘thingatpt.el’ for documentation on how to define a valid THING. But that isn't even a clickable button. It should be called `thing-at-point' BTW. That looks like something out of C or Python. > Perhaps both functions might want to get reconciled with > each others. But perhaps there is a deeper reason their > "things" lists differ. *thumbs-down* -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal