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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
	"Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mark-word
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:33:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abpgqrdw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473B478F.5060401@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed\, 14 Nov 2007 20\:07\:59 +0100")

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> Is there a mark-thing-at-point?

No

> If there were then mark-word-at-point could be implemented using that.

It could also be implemented rather simply using primitive functions.
The thing-at-point code is hairy and ugly, so it seems backwards to base
other simpler functions on it...

-Miles

-- 
I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme
or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over.  --Ian Wolff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-14  7:35 mark-word Andreas Röhler
2007-11-14  8:11 ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-14  8:26   ` mark-word David Kastrup
2007-11-14 11:27     ` mark-word Andreas Röhler
2007-11-14 17:24       ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-14 19:07         ` mark-word Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15  0:33           ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-11-15  8:40             ` mark-word Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15  9:18               ` mark-word Miles Bader
2007-11-15 13:52                 ` mark-word Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15 10:04               ` mark-word Andreas Röhler
2007-11-14 17:02     ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-14  8:37   ` mark-word Leo
2007-11-14 16:35     ` mark-word Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-15  3:07     ` mark-word Richard Stallman

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