From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any word in mail-mode is recognized as (thing-at-point 'symbol) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:46:53 +0300 Message-ID: References: <135052c52dc9cf59347c5a1fc6744872.support1@rcdrun.com> <87lemlf9mp.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36380"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 03 05:59:08 2023 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 1pCZOG-00099T-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:59:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCZNY-0001Iv-F3; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCZNX-0001In-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCZNS-0005oS-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.13.208]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055D77.0000000063B3B5E6.00005078; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:58:13 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lemlf9mp.fsf@web.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_12_24=1.049, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142101 Archived-At: * Michael Heerdegen [2023-01-02 14:41]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > Dear Drew, > > > > I find that any word I inspect in mail-mode and probably then in other > > modes is detected as (thing-at-point 'symbol) even if it is not > > symbol. > > > > What I expect is that (thing-at-point 'symbol) detects only Emacs Lisp > > defined symbols. > > That's not what it does. Whatever you mean by "defined symbol" you have > to check yourself (e.g. using `intern-soft'). It becomes confusing. Is any word in any text buffer than "symbol"? -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/