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Re: Any word in mail-mode is recognized as (thing-at-point 'symbol)
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Any word in mail-mode is recognized as (thing-at-point 'symbol) |
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Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:39:42 +0100 |
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Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> Dear Drew,
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> I find that any word I inspect in mail-mode and probably then in other
> modes is detected as (thing-at-point 'symbol) even if it is not
> symbol.
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> What I expect is that (thing-at-point 'symbol) detects only Emacs Lisp
> defined symbols.
That's not what it does. Whatever you mean by "defined symbol" you have
to check yourself (e.g. using `intern-soft').
Michael.