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 #133 received at 21391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:28:17 +0200

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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