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>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 21391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:13:46 +0200

> Cc: tino.calancha <at> gmail.com, 21391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:19:00 +0200
> 
> > We'd also lose something else: some Lisp objects can be printed, but
> > their printed representation cannot be read back.  So for some
> > objects, requiring thing-at-point to return a string would lose
> > information.
> 
> We won't lose that if we go with either of my proposals: instead of 
> printing objects inside the thing-at-point function, we would require 
> that each returned thing is a string already.

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.
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