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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/thingatpt.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/thingatpt.el | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el index b13b7b95cd0..045264528ff 100644 --- a/lisp/thingatpt.el +++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el @@ -106,8 +106,17 @@ valid THING. Return a cons cell (START . END) giving the start and end positions of the thing found." - (if (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point) - (funcall (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point)) + (cond + ((get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point) + (funcall (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point))) + ;; If the buffer is totally empty, give up. + ((and (not (eq thing 'whitespace)) + (save-excursion + (goto-char (point-min)) + (not (re-search-forward "[^\t\n ]" nil t)))) + nil) + ;; Find the thing. + (t (let ((orig (point))) (ignore-errors (save-excursion @@ -149,7 +158,7 @@ positions of the thing found." (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1)))) (point)))) (if (and (<= real-beg orig) (<= orig end) (< real-beg end)) - (cons real-beg end)))))))))) + (cons real-beg end))))))))))) ;;;###autoload (defun thing-at-point (thing &optional no-properties) |