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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#12692: 24.1; thing-at-point in temp buffer |
Date: | Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:05:13 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
tags 12692 notabug close 12692 stop Jerome Truong wrote: > Why does the following return the whole string "this.is.an.example": > > (thing-at-point 'symbol)this.is.an.example > ^ > | > eval at point here > > but using a temp buffer only returns "this": > > (let ((type 'symbol) > (string "this.is.an.example")) > (with-temp-buffer > (insert string) > (goto-char 1) > (let ((thing (thing-at-point type))) > (message "%s" thing)))) Depends on the syntax table in use. Replace your second example with (let ((type 'symbol) (string "this.is.an.example")) (with-temp-buffer (insert string) (goto-char 1) (with-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table (let ((thing (thing-at-point type))) (message "%s" thing))))) HTH; maybe try help-gnu-emacs first next time?
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