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

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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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 21391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:36:07 +0200

> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:26:54 +0100
> 
> IMHO the current design is really confusing and shouldn't be kept.

IMNSHO it would be madness to make incompatible changes 20 years after
the code was admitted into Emacs.

> if (get thing 'thing-at-point)
>               (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point))
> 
> AFAIU an arbitrary function might  be stored here, no real relation to 
> thing-at-point at all.

Correct.  We have gobs of functions that can return several different
kinds of objects.

> Next clause deals with buffer-substring - which is thing-at-point about 
> in my understanding.

IMO, your understanding is wrong at least since 1997.
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