Whats the status of forward-thing ?

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With reference to the post 7 years ago, what is the status
of

forward-thing ?

What does it exactly do ?

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From: klarl...@research.att.com (Nils Klarlund)
Subject: forward-thing in thingatpt.el
Date: 2000/06/01
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In GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195)
 of Tue Feb 29 2000 on buffy
configured using `configure NT'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

forward-thing doesn't work with forward-op's that are lambda
expressions, change --->


(defun forward-thing (thing &optional n)
  "Move forward to the end of the next THING."
  (let ((forward-op (or (get thing 'forward-op)
			(intern-soft (format "forward-%s" thing)))))
    (if (fboundp forward-op)
	(funcall forward-op (or n 1))
      (error "Can't determine how to move over a %s" thing))))

to --->

(defun forward-thing (THING &optional N)
  "Move forward to the end of the next THING."
  (let ((forward-op (or (get THING 'forward-op)
			(intern-soft (format "forward-%s" THING)))))
    (if (indirect-function forward-op)
	(funcall forward-op (or N 1))

      (error "Can't determine how to move over %ss" THING))))

/Nils