; Fix recently installed documentation

* etc/NEWS:
* lisp/thingatpt.el
(thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-or-string-at-point): Clarify
wording of the documentation of 'list-or-string'.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index e9b60e95945e16e6a3fce949ca314c4a3a9bb510..1b67ef98b6c60f84e405c8ba6944fbcea5a7fef6 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2587,6 +2587,9 @@ This is like 'filename', but is a full path, and is nil if the file
 doesn't exist.
 
 *** New 'thing-at-point' target: 'list-or-string'.
+This is like 'list, but if point is inside a string that's enclosed in
+the list, it returns the enclosed string and not the enclosing list.
+
 This is like 'list', but also prefers to find of any enclosing string.
 
 +++

diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el
index 09a86d224382af1b996b06f7a0d69fee334cb2a7..efe33982c3c914d909253597e0d3d1cdc532481e 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/thingatpt.el
+++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el
@@ -301,8 +301,10 @@ Prefer the enclosing list with fallback on sexp at point.
 
 (defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-or-string-at-point ()
   "Return the bounds of the list or string at point.
-Like `thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point', but also
-prefer to find of any enclosing string."
+Like `thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point', but if
+point is inside a string that's enclosed in the list, this
+function will return the enclosed string and not the
+enclosing list."
   (thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point t t))
 
 ;; Defuns