From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-9e5f9c5e-9c21-4b30-bcb3-c2b6b72ab8ff-1604260289491@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zh40ev2o.fsf@gnu.org>
We should include ones that come to our minds would be useful, particularly those
customarily dealt by users. Linguistic structures are an example since many Emacs
users deal with words, sentences, and paragraphs on a daily basis.
More documentation is more useful than less documentation. We can keep the more
exotic things off the list. Especially THINGS coming from outer space.
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2020 at 8:27 PM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs
>
> > Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 21:52:32 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>,
> > Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > Return the THING at point.
> > THING should be a symbol specifying a type of syntactic entity.
> > Possibilities include ‘symbol’, ‘list’, ‘sexp’, ‘defun’,
> > ‘filename’, ‘url’, ‘email’, ‘uuid’, ‘word’, ‘sentence’, ‘whitespace’,
> > ‘line’, ‘number’, and ‘page’.
> >
> >
> > Could somebody update documentation for those functions?
>
> The number of "things" it can support is unbounded. How would you
> suggest to update the doc string to describe an infinite number of
> possible objects?
>
>
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2020-11-01 16:08 bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 18:22 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 18:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 18:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 19:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 20:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 22:06 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 22:36 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 22:47 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 22:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 23:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-02 1:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-02 4:09 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-11-02 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-03 6:00 ` Corwin Brust
2020-11-03 6:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-03 7:41 ` Corwin Brust
2020-11-03 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-06 23:45 ` Corwin Brust
2020-11-07 1:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-02 6:07 ` finder-commentary Jean Louis
2020-11-02 15:48 ` finder-commentary Drew Adams
2020-11-02 16:02 ` finder-commentary Drew Adams
2020-11-02 16:58 ` finder-commentary Jean Louis
2020-11-02 17:27 ` finder-commentary Drew Adams
2020-11-01 22:49 ` RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs Jean Louis
2020-11-01 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 23:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-02 1:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 20:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 21:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-01 21:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 21:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 19:51 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-01 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 20:09 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 20:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 20:31 ` Christopher Dimech
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2020-11-01 21:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 20:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-01 20:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 22:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-01 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-01 18:45 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 18:51 ` Drew Adams
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2018-12-04 9:04 ` using setq to create lists based on other lists Barry Margolin
2018-12-04 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-05 1:07 ` Robert Thorpe
2018-12-05 2:32 ` Drew Adams
2018-12-05 6:45 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-05 8:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-12-05 8:11 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-05 14:57 ` Drew Adams
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2018-12-05 16:59 ` Barry Margolin
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2018-12-05 16:50 ` Barry Margolin
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2018-12-05 16:47 ` Barry Margolin
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2018-01-13 0:43 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
2018-01-13 3:43 ` info-find-source Robert Thorpe
2018-01-13 5:23 ` info-find-source Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-13 16:31 ` info-find-source Drew Adams
2018-01-14 7:03 ` info-find-source Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-16 23:10 ` info-find-source Drew Adams
2018-01-13 15:50 ` info-find-source Drew Adams
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2018-01-14 2:57 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
2018-01-14 7:00 ` info-find-source Marcin Borkowski
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2018-01-15 4:17 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
2018-01-15 18:54 ` info-find-source Marcin Borkowski
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2018-01-15 19:55 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
2018-01-16 23:58 ` info-find-source Robert Thorpe
2018-01-19 6:22 ` info-find-source Marcin Borkowski
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2018-01-19 7:12 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
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2018-01-19 21:05 ` info-find-source Drew Adams
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2018-01-19 22:19 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
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2018-01-20 19:49 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
2018-01-20 20:18 ` info-find-source Eli Zaretskii
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2018-01-20 23:50 ` info-find-source Drew Adams
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2018-01-21 11:49 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
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2018-01-19 20:43 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
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2018-01-14 2:54 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
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2018-01-15 19:50 ` info-find-source Emanuel Berg
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2015-03-03 0:47 Opening a bookmark in the init file Robert Thorpe
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2014-11-25 8:33 ` When do you prefer windows instead of frames? Was: " H. Dieter Wilhelm
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