Re: patch for thingatpt.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> See the recent bug with subject "describe-* and M-x should see past
> quote mark" as an example.  Stefan presumably (I haven't checked)
> fixed this by maneuvering around a quote mark at point, to get to the
> symbol. That kind of maneuvering is unnecessary as a one-off fix if
> you just use `*-nearest-point'.

Actually, that's a bad example: the code already did the right thing,
but some part of it was not run with the proper syntax-table.


        Stefan