From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 21391@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:12:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2484b79-3aaf-4dde-a60f-420f8a2222b8@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a8dbiaps.fsf@gnu.org>
On 07.11.2016 17:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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?
When thing is a number? Maybe. I don't imagine it's used very often.
> If so, I don't think we
> can do that.
It's pretty clearly a bug: most other "things" behave otherwise (list,
sexp, symbol). I'd very much rather we didn't retain conceptual problems
like that just for the sake of compatibility.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-07 19:12 UTC|newest]
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2015-09-01 1:59 bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t Tino Calancha
2015-09-05 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-13 7:00 ` bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t) Tino Calancha
2016-11-04 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 18:31 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-04 19:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 20:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 9:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-07 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 15:01 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 20:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 3:17 ` bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string Tino Calancha
2016-11-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:12 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2016-11-07 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 20:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-08 13:15 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-08 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 0:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-09 6:43 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-09 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 23:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 16:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 18:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 21:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-11 10:07 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-11 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 14:13 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-11 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 14:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-11 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 14:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-11 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 15:05 ` Tino Calancha
2016-11-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-14 1:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-14 2:43 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-14 10:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-14 15:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-16 13:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-16 14:45 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-14 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-15 7:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-14 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 18:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-09 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-09 23:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-10 0:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-10 8:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-24 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2016-11-07 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-07 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 17:22 ` bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t) Andreas Röhler
2016-11-07 17:37 ` Drew Adams
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