# HG changeset patch
# User Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
# Date 1103202365 0
# Node ID 3a6978b560e9e4407a41a250aea1f3341ff2c867
# Parent  1a8bbdcb009f62f7e2d707a1a0bf78b58a33097b
* help-fns.el (variable-at-point):
As a last resort try striping non-word prefixes and suffixes.

diff -r 1a8bbdcb009f -r 3a6978b560e9 lisp/help-fns.el
--- a/lisp/help-fns.el	Thu Dec 16 13:05:37 2004 +0000
+++ b/lisp/help-fns.el	Thu Dec 16 13:06:05 2004 +0000
@@ -478,8 +478,13 @@
 		(and (symbolp obj) (boundp obj) obj))))
 	(error nil))
       (let* ((str (find-tag-default))
-	     (obj (if str (intern str))))
-	(and (symbolp obj) (boundp obj) obj))
+	     (sym (if str (intern-soft str))))
+	(if (and sym (boundp sym))
+	    sym
+	  (save-match-data
+	    (when (and str (string-match "\\`\\W*\\(.*?\\)\\W*\\'" str))
+	      (setq sym (intern-soft (match-string 1 str)))
+	      (and (boundp sym) sym)))))
       0))
 
 ;;;###autoload