From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gnuist006@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Whats the status of forward-thing ? Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:53:42 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1193003622.000432.44210__5502.36272761158$1193029127$gmane$org@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193029120 21827 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2007 04:58:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:58:40 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 06:58:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjpN9-0007yg-Fa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:58:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjpN1-0001rD-SL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:58:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 57 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.35.20.208 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1193003622 15705 127.0.0.1 (21 Oct 2007 21:53:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:53:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.35.20.208; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:43726 gnu.emacs.help:153180 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:57:02 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16800 Archived-At: With reference to the post 7 years ago, what is the status of forward-thing ? What does it exactly do ? gnuist From: klarl...@research.att.com (Nils Klarlund) Subject: forward-thing in thingatpt.el Date: 2000/06/01 Message-ID: <200006011538.LAA13391@alliance.research.att.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 629922605 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-requ...@mail.gnu.org Approved: bug-gnu-emacs-requ...@mail.gnu.org x-uunet-gateway: dfw7sosrv11.alter.net from bug-gnu-emacs to gnu.emacs.bug; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:38:56 GMT Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) of Tue Feb 29 2000 on buffy configured using `configure NT' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: forward-thing doesn't work with forward-op's that are lambda expressions, change ---> (defun forward-thing (thing &optional n) "Move forward to the end of the next THING." (let ((forward-op (or (get thing 'forward-op) (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" thing))))) (if (fboundp forward-op) (funcall forward-op (or n 1)) (error "Can't determine how to move over a %s" thing)))) to ---> (defun forward-thing (THING &optional N) "Move forward to the end of the next THING." (let ((forward-op (or (get THING 'forward-op) (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" THING))))) (if (indirect-function forward-op) (funcall forward-op (or N 1)) (error "Can't determine how to move over %ss" THING)))) /Nils