From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: mark-sexp signals "Containing expression ends prematurely" Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:23:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1156942065.291262.111000@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156951474 3244 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2006 15:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 30 17:24:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRul-0001zA-Fl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:23:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRuk-00089E-VZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRuV-00086g-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRuS-00084w-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRuR-00084o-KK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1GIS3r-0007XQ-QC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k7UFN4ZW027509; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k7UFN3rf010930; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:23:03 -0600 Original-To: "Florian Kaufmann" , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <1156942065.291262.111000@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37065 Archived-At: I'm trying to write a defun which which takes point or the current region and extends the region at both side by an sexp. Take a look at the commands and functions in library thing-cmds.el, here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/thing-cmds.el. The doc is here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ThingAtPointCommands. >>From your description, it sounds like they might provide what you are looking for.