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bug#29499: 25.3; bounds-of-thing-at-point for nested s-expressions?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#29499: 25.3; bounds-of-thing-at-point for nested s-expressions? |
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Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:00:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> The problem is that thingatpt wants to go to the end of the current
> sexp, and uses forward-sexp for that. The amusing thing about
> forward-sexp is that it won't error if there's nothing to advance to
> (like at the end of a buffer), but if it hits a ")" immediately, it
> signals an error, making bounds-of-thing-at-point return nil.
>
> The patch below fixes the problem, but I'm not very familiar with the
> thingatpt code. Does anybody think this makes sense?
There weren't any comments, but it does seem to fix the reported issue,
so I've applied the patch.
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