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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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.

Another idea: We could change thing-at-point to only respond to
"positive" fields.  That is, only consider a thing to be a field if
there's a `field' property under point.

(insert (propertize "foo" 'field 1) "bar" (propertize "zot" 'field 2))

This would mean that (symbol-at-point) in the "foo" bit would return
`foo', but in the "bar" part, it would return `foobarzot'.  (Before
adding field support, it would return the latter in the first case,
too.)

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