GNU bug report logs - #3395
23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:45:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 3395 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:15:54 +0200

> A colon is a symbol consituent. A command that picks up the symbol at
> point will conveniently pick up the variable etc. name, but it will
> also include the colon (assuming that it correctly respects Lisp
> symbol syntax), which is incorrect.

Maybe we should improve or expand the regexp of `variable-at-point'

      "\\`\\W*\\(.*?\\)\\W*\\'"

to strip _any_ symbol characters surrounding a word-bounded substring at
point.  Or add yet another condition with a laxer regexp.

martin
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