From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp-index-search on current word Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:18:59 -0600 Message-ID: References: <36eff0bb-4e77-474a-97f2-820fdc077900@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com> <87prmbdv6h.fsf@manatee.domain> <765c9d83-3749-4a7b-873b-e9e305efbe40@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <489a1e3f-8a7d-4bf8-bf3a-a2ef06eddea6@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223605154 3806 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2008 02:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:19:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 04:20:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ko7bu-0000O1-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko7aq-00033E-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko7aY-00032v-2E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko7aW-000320-6z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45224 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko7aW-00031x-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43825 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko7aW-0006LY-7u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko7aQ-0006iI-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:18:38 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:18:38 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:18:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: <489a1e3f-8a7d-4bf8-bf3a-a2ef06eddea6@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:58650 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > On Oct 8, 7:49 pm, Kevin Rodgers wrote: >> What happens when you call my version or Andy's version? > > it didn't prompt the symbol under cursor. I tried up arrow but i > didn't try down arrow; should've. Yes, would have worked. > I filed a bug report on this issue. I think it should prompt the > symbol under cursor like most other lookup commands such as describe- > function, where the current symbol is shown inside the prompt text. Ah, to get the conventional prompt: (defadvice elisp-index-search (before interactive-default activate) "Provide the symbol at point as the default when reading TOPIC interactively." (interactive (let ((symbol-at-point (thing-at-point 'symbol))) (list (read-string (if symbol-at-point (format "Topic (%s): " symbol-at-point) (format "Topic: ")) nil nil symbol-at-point))))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA