Re: symbol-at-point

[Tassilo Horn]

Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:

> AFAIU implementation of `symbol-at-point' is not straightforward in
> relation with other thing at point functions:
>
> These return THING as a substring of buffer, doing nothing else,

Yeah, because most THINGs are strings. An url is a string, a filename is
a string, ...

> whereas symbol-at-point interns existing THING unconditionally

Well, the THING symbol clearly is not a string.

> Wouldn't it be more clean to write a separate (intern SYMBOL-at-point)
> function, if someone wants to do that?

It would be very confusing if a function named `symbol-at-point'
wouldn't return a symbol (or nil if there's no symbol at point).

Bye,
Tassilo
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