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thing-at-mouse

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 50256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#50256: thing-at-mouse
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:30:10 +0300

> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, larsi <at> gnus.org, 50256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 08:48:15 +0200
> 
>  >> (pos-visible-in-window-p nil nil t) should never return nil as it
>  >> does in the above recipe.
>  >
>  > Why not?
> 
> Because in the manual we say that
> 
>    "The argument POSITION defaults to the current position
>     of point in WINDOW; WINDOW defaults to the selected window."
> 
> If the current buffer is not shown in WINDOW, the first part of this
> sentence is wrong.

So the only problem is that of inaccurate documentation?

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