GNU bug report logs - #52733
29.0.50; Wishlist: thingatpt should use fields

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:01:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 29.0.50

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; Wishlist: thingatpt should use fields
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:00:21 +0100
A previous attempt at making this happen was done in
7db376e560448e61485ba054def8c82b21f33d6a, but was reverted due to
serious performance regressions (see bug#52593).

I still think it's a good idea to make this work, but it has to be more
efficient.  Perhaps a way to implement this would be to make the
beginning-of-thing/end-of-thing functions (or something in that
vicinity) check whether there's a field in the area it's covering, and
then limit itself to that area first.

That should fix the performance regressions -- the problem with
just calling field-beginning/end without any limits is that it will
search through the entire buffer, and that can be slow.


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 13, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2021-12-19 built on xo
Repository revision: ec692470bdbd9f673e925bae1c96ad066fb0295a
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12013000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid


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