From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: feature proposal: occur-read-primary-args: (from Xemacs)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:42:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh8fkfmc.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
hello
Coming form Xemacs, there is one feature I miss. In Xemacs when I use
occur, the minibuffers offer me the word (symbol) the cursor is on.
Now looking at the code, I found out that there is *no* difference in
the definition of occur.
(defun occur (regexp &optional nlines)
(interactive (occur-read-primary-args))
(occur-1 regexp nlines (list (current-buffer))))
But in the function (occur-read-primary-args)
Which is defined for Xemacs as follows:
(defun occur-read-primary-args ()
(list (let* ((default (or (symbol-near-point)
(and regexp-history
(car regexp-history))))
(minibuffer-history-minimum-string-length 0)
(input
(if default
;; XEmacs: rewritten for I18N3 snarfing
(read-from-minibuffer
(format "List lines matching regexp (default `%s'): "
default) nil nil nil 'regexp-history nil
default)
(read-from-minibuffer
"List lines matching regexp: "
nil nil nil
'regexp-history))))
(if (equal input "")
default
input))
(when current-prefix-arg
(prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg))))
The essential point seems to be the let* which defines default, which
needs the function symbol-near-point
which in turn is given:
(defun symbol-near-point ()
"Return the first textual item to the nearest point."
(interactive)
;alg stolen from etag.el
(save-excursion
(if (or (bobp) (not (memq (char-syntax (char-before)) '(?w ?_))))
(while (not (looking-at "\\sw\\|\\s_\\|\\'"))
(forward-char 1)))
(while (looking-at "\\sw\\|\\s_")
(forward-char 1))
(if (re-search-backward "\\sw\\|\\s_" nil t)
(regexp-quote
(progn (forward-char 1)
(buffer-substring (point)
(progn (forward-sexp -1)
(while (looking-at "\\s'")
(forward-char 1))
(point)))))
nil)))
So the question boils down to this, could this feature be implemented in
GNU emacs, either by directly using symbol-near-point or a different
implementation?
Thanks
Uwe Brauer
next reply other threads:[~2015-12-27 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 16:42 Uwe Brauer [this message]
2015-12-31 0:22 ` feature proposal: occur-read-primary-args: (from Xemacs) Juri Linkov
2015-12-31 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-31 16:49 ` Uwe Brauer
2015-12-31 18:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-31 16:48 ` Uwe Brauer
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