GNU bug report logs - #31772
26.1; (thing-at-point 'list) regression

Previous Next

Full log

Message #17 received at 31772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 31772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: bug#31772: 26.1; (thing-at-point 'list) regression
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:17:08 +0800

On 2018-06-11 00:21 +0900, Tino Calancha wrote:
> Initially I thought that; after discuss with Emacs colleages
> I changed my mine.
>
> If you are in a buffer in emacs-lisp-mode, I just see
> one list of length 3 in the following line:
> ("foo" "(bar)" "baz")
>
> "(bar)" is a string.

I think you are solving the problem the wrong way. The original
behaviour of (thing-at-point 'list) relied on up-list and is intuitive
and sensible. After all who doesn't use up-list/down-list/kill-sexp etc.
(thing-at-point 'list) is well-aligned with them simply by letting
up-list do it.

But the point is a decade-old function that is functional and used in
people's init or packages are changed in drastically incompatible way. I
noticed the issue only after upgrade to emacs 26.1 a few days ago and
discovered https://github.com/leoliu/easy-kill/issues/28.

*SIDE NOTE*

One of the issues with Emacs development (I feel it more deeply after I
changed to use stable releases), people (in most cases only 1 user) find
some feature doesn't entirely suit their needs and they change it often
without full-perspective how it is used. For emacs 26.1 I have at least
three irritating annoyances (not counting crashes which are often beyond
my reach) that I need to code away one way or another.

Leo

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.