GNU bug report logs - #8667
24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' returns (N . N) for `comment'

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

Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 00:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 8670

Found in version 24.0.50

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

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8667: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' returns (N . N) for `comment'
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 07:51:26 -0700

> > That's clearly no good for thing-at-point, in general.
> 
> Guess where I think the problem lies?

Good, so you recognize there is a problem.  The bug is that `thing-at-point' and
`bounds-of-thing-at-point' can return non-nil for type `comment' when there is
no comment at point.  The former returns a purely whitespace string; the latter
returns its bounds as a cons.

You seem to suggest that the problem, and the proper fix, involves thingatpt.el,
not `forward-comment'.  That sounds fine to me.

One way or the other, however, this needs to be fixed.
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