GNU bug report logs - #21391
24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:57:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.5

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #103 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 07:43:31 +0100


On 09.11.2016 01:04, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 08.11.2016 17:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> But then somehow the discussion shifted to be about whether to _force_
>> thing-at-point value to be a string, even if it isn't for some reason.
>
> I'd suggest trying to fix that from the other end, as one alternative. 
> If we agree that the return value of thing-at-point should be a 
> string, (get 'number 'thing-at-point) can't return `number-at-point', 
> it should return a function that will return the said number as a string.

It might be worth noticing that result of thing-at-point natively is a 
string. In case these string is not returned for now, additional 
functions are called upon. For example "intern" in case of 
symbol-at-point, which makes me frown. ;)
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