GNU bug report logs - #9454
24.0.50; thingatpt.el should be updated to respect field boundaries

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 23:20:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 9454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9454: 24.0.50; thingatpt.el should be updated to respect field boundaries
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:47:00 -0700

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

> I'm no expert on fields, to put it mildly.  But my impression is that
> thing-at-point functions should not cross field boundaries.
>
> I ran into this using a thing-at-point function (actually, a
> thing-near-point function) in the minibuffer.  Now that (forward-line 0)
> takes you across the field boundary and into the prompt field, I ended
> up with "Text is read-only" errors.

Do you have a test case to reproduce this bug?

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