unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>, Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: grep-at-point
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:01:03 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42a1b0b4-b8c2-4eda-a70a-0442c059bb3c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170111094846.122e7235@gauss>

> 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.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11 21:01 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 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-01-11 21:29   ` grep-at-point Joe Riel
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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=42a1b0b4-b8c2-4eda-a70a-0442c059bb3c@default \
    --to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    --cc=joer@san.rr.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).