From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64739@debbugs.gnu.org, winkler@gnu.org, joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in
Subject: bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmysx091.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0p1zatl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:52:06 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > > On Thu, Jul 20 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > >> forward-word doesn't seem to be the correct forward-op for numbers.
> > > >
> > > > That depends on the buffer's syntax table, though.
> > >
> > > I am frequently running into similar problems when I deal with numbers,
> > > but the syntax table is not designed for this. Would it make sense if
> > > (forward-thing 'number) temporarily used a customized synatx table?
> >
> > It should use its own function, if you ask me. forward-word is a
> > kludge.
>
> To clarify: I meant that using forward-word in this case is a kludge.
It had been added by Lars when fixing Bug#54555 "number is not an
accepted value for THING in bounds-of-thing-at-point" last year.
Probably just not being aware of this problem with the decimal point.
So: yes, a klugde, it's too simple.
Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-22 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-20 6:19 bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-20 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:28 ` Roland Winkler
2023-07-21 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 14:14 ` Roland Winkler
2023-07-21 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23 3:36 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-23 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23 19:03 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-24 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-26 12:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-29 23:01 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-22 0:23 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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