From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Grab and yank
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:47:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hji132$rou$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C65CD08D88724733B527B3279CEA0A7A@us.oracle.com
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> >> thingatpt+ might be a good place for this?
>> >> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/thingatpt+.el
>> >
>> > Why?
>>
>> It's an existing documented library of things that
>> specialises in doing "things at point"...
>
> I think Andrea wanted something that:
>
> (a) goes and gets a function definition
> (from a tags file or the function's source code)
> (b) returns to the original location, and
> (c) yanks the definition at point.
>
> The thing-at-pt functions pick up stuff at or near point.
> They don't (and shouldn't) do excursion stuff or yanking.
>
> That said, these functions in `thingatpt+.el' might be of some use in this
> context: `region-or-word-nearest-point', `region-or-word-at-point'. They pick up
> the active region or (if inactive) the word nearest/at point.
>
That was my thinking of it. And to be honest I'm not sure yank is out of
the realms of a "thing at pt" functionality. Anyway, I wanted to bring
attention to the library too since that might well help Andrea. I know
it did me when I first started scratching around trying to find simple
functions to get the word or region at pt without needing to learn about
the myriad of ways mark and point interact.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-23 21:31 Grab and yank andrea
2010-01-24 10:34 ` andrea
2010-01-24 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-24 11:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-24 11:50 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-01-24 12:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-24 13:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-24 15:13 ` Richard Riley
2010-01-24 15:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-24 17:29 ` Richard Riley
2010-01-24 17:39 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-24 17:47 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-01-24 14:32 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.99.1264332314.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-25 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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