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24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 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, 23 Feb 2016 03:01:12 +0200

I'm not sure it should be fixed.

Your reasoning seems valid, however by now this behavior is ingrained 
into my expectations of how thing-at-point should behave.

This would be a breaking change. For instance, it will make 
(bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol) unsuitable for use in a 
completion-at-point-functions element, to compute the first two values 
of the returned list, because during completion you're most often 
"after" the symbol. And I do use it for that purpose in one third-party 
package.

emacs-eclim also uses it in 
eclim-java-show-documentation-for-current-element. At the very least, 
this will change the existing behavior.

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