Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
in thingatpt.el:
;; The function bounds-of-thing-at-point finds the beginning and end
;; positions by moving first forward to the end of the "thing", and then
;; backwards to the beginning.
;;;;;;;
Also bounds-of-thing-at-point jumps to-and-fro, doing some sanity check every
time.
Suggest to jump first at the beginning, as backward move might be slow.
Avoid to-and-fro, deliver tests instead, so first try will be reliable or
return nil.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)
I'm not sure I understand the issue, even with the response you gave to
Eli at the time.
Do you have a test case that demonstrates this slowness, and an example
of how you'd change the code?