GNU bug report logs - #14234
24.3; symbol-at-point fails in (very) narrowed buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:49:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14234: 24.3; symbol-at-point fails in (very) narrowed buffers
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:49:27 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> This probably has to do with the thing-at-point relying on forward-thing
>> and backward-thing which, in this case, return eob and bob respectively.
>
> Yup.  This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

I had to revert, because my fix didn't do the right thing with point
after a symbol.  I've now added a bunch of tests for this function.

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