H, Drew
Hmmm... thanks for the clarification. That's going to be extremely helpful
once I'm back on track after the "grading season" ;-) All this started, at
least for me, when I was trying to write a simple interactive function to
copy the contents of the cell the point is in to the kill-ring (and
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 09:10:59 -0700
> Cc: yanta...@posteo.net, emacs-de...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter
>
> On 5/7/2024 5:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I disagree. These functions are nowadays the basis of many
> > interactive features, and users are usually mightily co
On 5/7/2024 5:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I disagree. These functions are nowadays the basis of many
interactive features, and users are usually mightily confused by the
fine print of what "at point" means technically in Emacs. The current
operation is much easier for users to grasp mentally by
> > I hear you. The behavior should be changed so
> > that, in general, bounds-of-thing-at-point etc.
> > return nil when there is _no thing at point_,
> > including when point is after, including just
> > after, a thing but not on such a thing.
> >
> > There can be commands (and noncommand fns) t
> From: Drew Adams
> CC: "e...@gnu.org" ,
> "emacs-de...@gnu.org"
> ,
> "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org"
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 01:52:13 +
>
> I hear you. The behavior should be changed so
> that, in general, bounds-of-thing-at-point etc.
> return nil when there is _no thing a
Thanks for your reply, Jim.
> On 4/30/2024 2:10 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> >> I've also fixed a bug in EWW and bug-reference-mode
> >> where it would return nil for (thing-at-point 'url)
> >> if point was at the *end* of a URL.
> >
> > By "at the end" I assume you really mean just
> > _after_ a URL,
On 4/30/2024 2:10 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
I've also fixed a bug in EWW and bug-reference-mode
where it would return nil for (thing-at-point 'url)
if point was at the *end* of a URL.
By "at the end" I assume you really mean just
_after_ a URL, i.e., no longer on/at the URL.
FWIW, that's actually
> I've also fixed a bug in EWW and bug-reference-mode
> where it would return nil for (thing-at-point 'url)
> if point was at the *end* of a URL.
By "at the end" I assume you really mean just
_after_ a URL, i.e., no longer on/at the URL.
FWIW, that's actually _superior_ behavior.
Unfortunately
