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26.1: thing-at-point doesn't recognize org-link urls

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jao <jao <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42483: 26.1: thing-at-point doesn't recognize org-link urls
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:51:25 +0100

jao <jao <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Excelent, thanks a lot.  I am not sure whether thing-at-point already
> has that, but it'd then be useful to be able to retrieve, together with
> the thing-at-point, its category (and even also have a thing/s/-at-point
> returning all detected things).  

I'm not sure I follow you here -- you call thing at point with the
category (or "thing", as thingatpt calls it) as the parameter:

(thing-at-point 'url)

thingatpt doesn't try to guess at what type of thing exists under point,
just what the thing is.

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