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bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when j
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:50:11 +0300 |
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:14:22 +0200
>
> On 20.06.2016 22:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:50:27 -0700 (PDT)
> >> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> >> Cc: f92capac@gmail.com, 9300@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
> >>
> >>> FWIW, I agree with Dmitry: this has been a de-facto behavior long
> >>> enough to consider it the correct one. If documentation is confusing
> >>> in that it says otherwise, we should fix the documentation.
> >> I couldn't disagree more.
> >>
> >> It is wrong to consider the current behavior "the correct one",
> >> regardless of how long it has been in place. It is wrong because
> >> you cannot use it in a general and precise way. It is just broken.
> >> It has been broken for a long time, but it is broken nevertheless.
> > That's immaterial. It is being used in many places, and it's
> > obviously useful.
>
> 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".
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, (continued)
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Drew Adams, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Andreas Röhler, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Drew Adams, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Drew Adams, 2016/06/20
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Andreas Röhler, 2016/06/21
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Andreas Röhler, 2016/06/21
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/21
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Drew Adams, 2016/06/21
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/21
- bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Drew Adams, 2016/06/21
bug#9300: 24.0.50; `bounds-of-thing-at-point' does not return nil when just after THING, Tino Calancha, 2016/06/20