GNU bug report logs - #24627
24.5; (thing-at-point 'list) may return a non-empty string without a list

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 09:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 13955

Found in versions 24.5, 25.0.94

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>, 24627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24627: 24.5; (thing-at-point 'list) may return a non-empty string without a list
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:15:27 -0400

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Noam Postavsky wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Escape '[' and ']' in doc string.
>>
>>
>> Huh? Why?
>>
>>> -[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.]"
>>> +\[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.\]"
>
> Right, i should just escape the open '[', as follows:
> +\[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.]"

Oh, I thought only round parens need to be escaped in the 1st column.
Is there something that looks for square brackets too?
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