Subject: Re: bug#72757: No symbols in etc/NEWS

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:43:17 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:22:34 +0300
> 
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. Open etc/NEWS
> 2. Move point to a symbol enclosed in single quotes
> 3. Type 'C-h o'
> 4. No default is proposed, so need to type the symbol manually
>    instead of typing RET

That's because thing-at-point--beginning-of-symbol allows the
apostrophe as part of the symbol's name, and so "C-h o" thinks the
symbol at point is 'foo-bar', with the quotes.

I don't see any better solution than providing a NEWS-specific version
of thing-at-point--beginning-of-symbol.