Subject: Re: bug#35708: [27.0.50]: thingatpt.el, thing-at-point-looking-at redundant

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 20:31:54 +0200

On 13.05.19 14:41, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> as result of ‘thing-at-point-looking-at’ finally is delivered by
>> ‘looking-at’,
>> don't see any sense in calling ‘re-search-forward’ first.
> The test added below fails if the re-search-forward in
> thing-at-point-looking-at is commented out.  Does that tell you what the
> "sense" is?
>

Thought at something like below, which should pass the test:

(defun ar-thing-at-point-looking-at (regexp)
   "Return t if regexp matches at or before point, nil otherwise."
   (save-excursion
       (while (not (or (looking-at regexp)(bolp)))
       (forward-char -1))
       (looking-at regexp)))