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From: | Tino Calancha |
Subject: | bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
Date: | Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:15:28 +0900 (JST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) |
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
On 07.11.2016 22:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:Didn't the function behave that way for quite some time? If so, how come it's suddenly a problem?Someone tried to use it for the first time?
I started to use it ~ 1 year ago. I want to recall that the manual says that this function returns _always_ a string: Return the @var{thing} around or next to point, as a string. (see at: doc/lispref/text.texi (Buffer Contents) But as you know, that is not true if (get thing 'thing-at-point) returns a non-nil value.
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