Revert field-related thingatpt changes

This reverts 7db376e560448e61485ba054def8c82b21f33d6a, which led to
severe performance regressions when being run in large buffers with no
fields (bug#52593)

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 02b6f665b07..1664ccfd044 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -3038,7 +3038,6 @@ checkdoc will now check the format of 'yes-or-no-p'.
 *** New command 'checkdoc-dired'.
 This can be used to run checkdoc on files from a Dired buffer.
 
----
 *** No longer checks for 'A-' modifiers.
 Checkdoc recommends usage of command substitutions ("\\[foo-command]")
 in favor of writing keybindings like 'C-c f'.  It now no longer warns
diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el
index 32e66184d70..4d3e68ec9c4 100644
--- a/lisp/thingatpt.el
+++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el
@@ -162,30 +162,24 @@ Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun',
 When the optional argument NO-PROPERTIES is non-nil,
 strip text properties from the return value.
 
-If the current buffer uses fields (see Info node `(elisp)Fields'),
-this function will narrow to the field before identifying the
-thing at point.
-
 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
 a symbol as a valid THING."
-  (save-restriction
-    (narrow-to-region (field-beginning) (field-end))
-    (let ((text
-           (cond
-            ((cl-loop for (pthing . function) in thing-at-point-provider-alist
-                      when (eq pthing thing)
-                      for result = (funcall function)
-                      when result
-                      return result))
-            ((get thing 'thing-at-point)
-             (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point)))
-            (t
-             (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
-               (when bounds
-                 (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds))))))))
-      (when (and text no-properties (sequencep text))
-        (set-text-properties 0 (length text) nil text))
-      text)))
+  (let ((text
+         (cond
+          ((cl-loop for (pthing . function) in thing-at-point-provider-alist
+                    when (eq pthing thing)
+                    for result = (funcall function)
+                    when result
+                    return result))
+          ((get thing 'thing-at-point)
+           (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point)))
+          (t
+           (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
+             (when bounds
+               (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds))))))))
+    (when (and text no-properties (sequencep text))
+      (set-text-properties 0 (length text) nil text))
+    text))
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun bounds-of-thing-at-mouse (event thing)
diff --git a/test/lisp/thingatpt-tests.el b/test/lisp/thingatpt-tests.el
index 2a32dc57b1c..dc108c77c5c 100644
--- a/test/lisp/thingatpt-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/thingatpt-tests.el
@@ -223,12 +223,4 @@ position to retrieve THING.")
   (should (equal (test--number "0xf00" 2) 3840))
   (should (equal (test--number "0xf00" 3) 3840)))
 
-(ert-deftest test-fields ()
-  (with-temp-buffer
-    (insert (propertize "foo" 'field 1) "bar" (propertize "zot" 'field 2))
-    (goto-char 1)
-    (should (eq (symbol-at-point) 'foo))
-    (goto-char 5)
-    (should (eq (symbol-at-point) 'bar))))
-
 ;;; thingatpt-tests.el ends here