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From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grep-at-point
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:29:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111132923.3e18d91f@gauss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42a1b0b4-b8c2-4eda-a70a-0442c059bb3c@default>

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:01:03 -0800 (PST)
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > Before writing one, is there an elisp function
> > that returns a buffer of links to file locations
> > where the elisp symbol at point is used?
> > 
> > I'm only concerned with the files in the current directory.
> > Am currently using M-x grep.   Maybe all I really need
> > is a grep-at-point function, which greps for the symbol at point.
> 
> Doesn't `M-x grep RET M-n' give you what you want?  If point
> is on a Lisp symbol then `M-n' yanks it as the default value.

It does.  I wasn't aware that grep set a special history list.  Nice.

-- 
Joe Riel




  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-11 17:48 grep-at-point Joe Riel
2017-01-11 19:21 ` grep-at-point Aleksandar Simic
2017-01-11 19:55   ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 19:42 ` grep-at-point Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-11 20:20   ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 20:23     ` grep-at-point Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-11 21:09       ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 21:32         ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 21:45       ` grep-at-point Marcin Borkowski
2017-01-11 19:56 ` grep-at-point Eric Abrahamsen
2017-01-11 20:15 ` grep-at-point John Mastro
2017-01-11 20:46 ` grep-at-point Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-01-11 21:01 ` grep-at-point Drew Adams
2017-01-11 21:29   ` Joe Riel [this message]
2017-01-11 22:15     ` xref-find-references in elisp (Was: Re: grep-at-point) Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 23:14       ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-01-11 23:24         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 23:37           ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-01-11 23:42             ` Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 23:42     ` grep-at-point Drew Adams

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