GNU bug report logs - #9300
24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:39:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 9300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:13:46 +0300

> Cc: 9300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:07:52 +0200
> 
> >> It is useful, but not in the way of the lemma "at-point". At-point means
> >> at cursor-position.
> > Yes, the de-facto behavior is actually "at or around point".
> 
> In what programming language users will be satisfied with results which 
> are correct or just a little bit false?

Emacs does this all the time.  It's called DWIM.
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