From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:14:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8dbiaps.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0a68c2ae-0940-4e2c-8b3c-1faceb45c43c@default> <1773ab35-70b1-42f9-8a8b-fe07881487d1@default> <874m3krnb6.fsf_-_@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478531679 20837 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 15:14:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21391@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tino Calancha Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 16:14:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lci-0002UF-SI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:14:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcl-0006yn-Mg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:14:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcc-0006y0-FR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:14:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcY-0000Ru-1j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:14:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcX-0000RZ-U1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcX-0003qD-OV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:14:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:14:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21391 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21391-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21391.147853163414746 (code B ref 21391); Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:14:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21391) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Nov 2016 15:13:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48531 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcQ-0003pm-Bc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42894) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcO-0003pX-K4 for 21391@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lcF-0000Ib-N0 for 21391@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:13:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lc9-0000Gr-As; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:13:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1973 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3lc8-0007Z8-3H; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:13:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <874m3krnb6.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (message from Tino Calancha on Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:17:17 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:125422 Archived-At: > From: Tino Calancha > CC: Drew Adams , Tino Calancha ,Eli Zaretskii > Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:17:17 +0900 > > Drew Adams writes: > > > A proper fix is to convert the result returned by > > (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point)) to a string. > > For that, you can use (format "%s" thing). > > It's natural if `thing-at-point' returns the thing as a string. > When the user don't want a string then s?he can use the specific > functions, like `number-at-point' or `list-at-point'. Isn't that completely backward-incompatible? If so, I don't think we can do that. I don't really see what is "improper" with the other suggestions to fix this bug, which simply avoid signaling an error if the "thing at point" happens to be something other than a string?