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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
Date: | Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:28:17 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/50.0 |
On 10.11.2016 19:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
But that's exactly my point: you cannot usefully return some objects as strings. Their text representation is much less useful than the object itself.
If the consumer needs the text representation, they will call (thing-at-point 'foo) If they need the "real thing", they will call (foo-at-point) which we really expect to be defined.
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