bug#52593: 28.0.90; (thing-at-point thing) has so much overhead since commit 7db376e560448e61485ba054def8c82b21f33d6a

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I admit that I lack the context here: why was thing-at-point changed
> to honor fields? what was that supposed to achieve?

I think respecting fields in general is a good idea -- the more things
that do, the more useful the field concept becomes.  And thing-at-point
seems like an obvious thing that can be helped by fields -- the fields
clarify what the "thing" is.

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