GNU bug report logs - #29499
25.3; bounds-of-thing-at-point for nested s-expressions?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: James Nguyen <jamesn <at> fastmail.com>

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:55:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 29499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: James Nguyen <jamesn <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 29499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29499: 25.3; bounds-of-thing-at-point for nested
 s-expressions?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:00:14 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> The problem is that thingatpt wants to go to the end of the current
> sexp, and uses forward-sexp for that.  The amusing thing about
> forward-sexp is that it won't error if there's nothing to advance to
> (like at the end of a buffer), but if it hits a ")" immediately, it
> signals an error, making bounds-of-thing-at-point return nil.
>
> The patch below fixes the problem, but I'm not very familiar with the
> thingatpt code.  Does anybody think this makes sense?

There weren't any comments, but it does seem to fix the reported issue,
so I've applied the patch.

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