bug#52593: 28.0.90; (thing-at-point thing) has so much overhead since commit 7db376e560448e61485ba054def8c82b21f33d6a

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> So limiting this here might do the trick, but what to use as the limit?
> Line end/beg positions?  Is there any THING that spans several lines?

To answer my question: Yes.  For instance, `list' may span several lines.
So...  Eli's suggestion of adding a no-field parameter here may be
solution, unless we somehow rethink the thing-at-point algorithm.

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