bug#24606: 25.1.50; (thing-at-point 'filename) doesn't recognize names with @

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> On a typical Posix system, a file name can include any character
> except '/' and a null character.  So I'm not sure we should add every
> character that some user somewhere needs.
>
> How many others here need this character be in a file name, for
> thing-at-point purposes?  Maybe we should ask on emacs-devel before
> deciding.

That was three years ago, with no followup.

I don't think adding @ here is particularly vital -- you used to never
see that character in file names, but lately it seems to have become
more popular?  I bump into file names like that from time to time now.

So I've applied the patch -- it's hard to see how it'd introduce any
regressions, and it's slightly useful.

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