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Re: symbol-at-point
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Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: symbol-at-point |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:
> AFAIU implementation of `symbol-at-point' is not straightforward in
> relation with other thing at point functions:
>
> These return THING as a substring of buffer, doing nothing else,
Yeah, because most THINGs are strings. An url is a string, a filename is
a string, ...
> whereas symbol-at-point interns existing THING unconditionally
Well, the THING symbol clearly is not a string.
> Wouldn't it be more clean to write a separate (intern SYMBOL-at-point)
> function, if someone wants to do that?
It would be very confusing if a function named `symbol-at-point'
wouldn't return a symbol (or nil if there's no symbol at point).
Bye,
Tassilo
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- symbol-at-point, Andreas Röhler, 2007/07/26
- Re: symbol-at-point, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/26
- Re: symbol-at-point,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: symbol-at-point, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/26
- RE: symbol-at-point, Drew Adams, 2007/07/26
- Re: symbol-at-point, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/27
- RE: symbol-at-point, Drew Adams, 2007/07/27
- Re: symbol-at-point, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/27
- RE: symbol-at-point, Drew Adams, 2007/07/27
- Re: symbol-at-point, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/28