symbol-at-point

[Andreas Roehler]

As already mentioned, I'm considering thing-at-point
help functions, provide interactive specs, some
bugfixing.

I'll stay as close as possible at routines from
thingatpt.el.

Just one different behaviour until now: list-at-point
will return the list too if called inside a string
enclosed by that list - instead of nil now.

With symbol-at-point however, I intend to drop the

   (if thing (intern thing))

form when called.

Because I conceive this as not regular. All the
thing-at-point forms just return the object at point,
doing nothing else.

To intern an object may have a lot of results not
considered then. Altogether the user may not be notice
it.

Any objections, other ideas?

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Andreas Roehler