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 #23 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
Subject: Re: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with
 arguments 'number t)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:31:36 +0100


On 04.11.2016 17:31, Drew Adams wrote:
> Tino is right.  The mistake behind the handling of optional arg
> NO-PROPERTIES (which was added in Emacs 24.4) is to assume that
> `thing-at-point' returns a string.  This is a common misconception.
> It can return anything that Emacs Lisp can return.

Is there a need to pick symbols from a buffer as symbols?
Don't know. My use-case is editing and strings are the suitable format.
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