From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour? Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:19:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345159213 31429 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2012 23:20:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:20:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 01:20:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T29ML-0002Gr-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T29MK-0001w9-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:20:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.arglkargh.de!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="4579"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+o6ucJxfXGHEDnueTy6w6z" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VSb/VcYTIZ5rShxMTFQ5ECDuOb4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194016 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86384 In article , Raffaele Ricciardi wrote: > On 08/16/2012 05:24 PM, Andreas Röhler wrote: > > Not to expect is changing the computers internal state already when > > picking an object by thing-at-point. > > That's what is done by "intern" however. > > Indeed this is an undesirable side effect of `symbol-at-point' calling > `intern'. Could `intern' be replaced with `make-symbol'? Most applications that use symbols need interned symbols. If you're doing something that wants an uninterned symbol, call (make-symbol (thing-at-point 'symbol)). -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***