From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joe Riel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: grep-at-point Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:29:23 -0800 Message-ID: <20170111132923.3e18d91f@gauss> References: <20170111094846.122e7235@gauss> <42a1b0b4-b8c2-4eda-a70a-0442c059bb3c@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1484171258 28074 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2017 21:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 11 22:47:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cRQjp-0005r1-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:47:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRQjt-00015L-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRQSX-0001xI-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRQST-0004uj-D4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:29:29 -0500 Original-Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.225]:55430 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRQST-0004ud-8M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:29:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [75.80.191.41] ([75.80.191.41:36637] helo=gauss) by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id C6/29-05528-3B3A6785; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:29:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <42a1b0b4-b8c2-4eda-a70a-0442c059bb3c@default> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.88:25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 107.14.166.225 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112099 Archived-At: On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:01:03 -0800 (PST) Drew Adams 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