From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, yantar92@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 15:20:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634qtbypq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488D7218057930B4AE1F162F3E42@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 7 May 2024 01:52:13 +0000)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "eliz@gnu.org" <eliz@gnu.org>,
> "emacs-devel@gnu.org"
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 01:52:13 +0000
>
> I hear you. The behavior should be changed so
> that, in general, bounds-of-thing-at-point etc.
> return nil when there is _no thing at point_,
> including when point is after, including just
> after, a thing but not on such a thing.
>
> There can be commands (and noncommand fns) that
> return things _near_ point, not only at point.
> And "near" can be configurable with an argument.
>
> In particular, they can do what the vanilla fns
> currently do: return a thing at OR just before
> point. But the "-at-point" functions shouldn't
> do that. They should do what their names say.
I disagree. These functions are nowadays the basis of many
interactive features, and users are usually mightily confused by the
fine print of what "at point" means technically in Emacs. The current
operation is much easier for users to grasp mentally by observing the
position of the cursor, whether it's on or just after the "thing".
> It's not hard for Emacs to still DTRT. It just
> takes a decision and admission that the behavior
> was misguided and unnecessarily limiting (BIG
> time).
We made the decision. It just is not what you think it should be,
because our considerations are different from yours.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-07 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-06 19:45 [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point Jim Porter
2023-11-06 19:56 ` Jim Porter
2023-11-06 20:11 ` Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point) Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-06 20:53 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-05 15:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-05 22:44 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-05 22:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-06 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 12:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-06 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 12:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-12 22:30 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-29 4:26 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-29 18:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-30 4:42 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-30 11:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-30 18:27 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-30 21:10 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-05-07 1:08 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2024-05-07 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-07 15:16 ` Drew Adams
2024-05-07 16:10 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-18 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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