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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:11:47 +0100
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Bob Weiner <weiner@infodock.com> writes:

> Although it works a bit differently, id-select.el, already included in XEmacs
> should meet your needs and then some.  Lets not continually enlarge XEmacs
> with multiple packages attacking the same problem when we can make one
> that works really well.

I do not agree here.  id-select is a large package, which does many,
many things, most of them being useful.  However, many of those things
have nothing to do with `thing-at-point' -- e.g. mouse handling, and
not all users wish to load it just to get the things provided by
thingatpt.el.

-rw-r--r--   1 hniksic  staff      46198 Jan 26 14:51 id-select.el
-r--r--r--   1 hniksic  f2          6718 Jan 14  1996 thingatpt.el

On the other hand, thingatpt.el is a small, well-defined package
(although it also contains code that could go elsewhere, like
`forward-symbol').  If nothing else, we should include it for
compatibility reasons.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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