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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
Date: | Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:55:47 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/50.0 |
On 10.11.2016 02:40, Drew Adams wrote:
What do YOU think is the point of putting property `thing-at-point' on a THING type?
Being lazy or unable to make up your mind. Or maybe some kind of micro-optimization.
You will see things like this in thingatpt.el: (put 'url 'thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-url-at-point) (put 'email 'thing-at-point (lambda () (let ((boundary-pair (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'email))) (if boundary-pair (buffer-substring-no-properties (car boundary-pair) (cdr boundary-pair))))))
Try removing these two in your local Emacs, save and restart (maybe do a rebuild as well, to be sure).
(thing-at-point 'url) and (thing-at-point 'email) will continue to work fine.
(put 'number 'thing-at-point 'number-at-point) And that's only a few predefined uses of it. One of the main points of the library is to provide tools that you can use to define your functions that implement providing a THING at point.
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