From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:08:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a926tjFeslU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
Hello there,
the documentation of `thing-at-point' states that such function returns "the
thing around or next to point". This is not the case with either
(thing-at-point
'symbol) or (thing-at-point 'sexp), for they both may return the thing
before
point. Try it with the following snippet (! symbolizes the point):
A!
(A)!
On the contrary, (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'list) returns nil as
expected in this
snippet:
(A)!
Is this inconsistent behaviour or am I missing something?
Tested on GNU Emacs 24.1 started with "emacs -Q".
Thank you.
next reply other threads:[~2012-08-15 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-15 18:08 Raffaele Ricciardi [this message]
2012-08-15 18:34 ` thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour? Barry Margolin
2012-08-15 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-15 19:00 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2012-08-16 11:52 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.7107.1345117968.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-16 15:48 ` Barry Margolin
2012-08-16 16:24 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.7114.1345134264.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-16 17:12 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2012-08-16 23:19 ` Barry Margolin
2012-08-17 0:46 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7128.1345164390.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-17 1:46 ` Barry Margolin
2012-08-17 4:38 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7135.1345178331.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-17 9:23 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2012-08-20 0:15 ` Drew Adams
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