Re: Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:27:04 -0700
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> On 4/30/2024 4:39 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> > What happens if you have multiple providers for an URL?
> > You add the provider to the end, so it will have the lower priority in
> > this scenario. I guess that you want the opposite - EWW provider to take
> > precedence. Same for other changes.
> 
> That's probably reasonable. I was just keeping things the way they were 
> historically here, but we might as well fix this now.
> 
> > It would make sense to add tests for "first wins" behaviour.
> 
> Done.
> 
> I've also fixed a bug in EWW and bug-reference-mode where it would 
> return nil for (thing-at-point 'url) if point was at the *end* of a URL. 
> It's now consistent with how 'thing-at-point' works by default. (If you 
> have two consecutive URLs and point is between them - only possible with 
> the custom provider function, I think - it'll prefer the second one.)

I think you can install this now.