From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Jerome Truong <jerometruong@gmail.com>
Cc: 12692@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12692: 24.1; thing-at-point in temp buffer
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:05:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003918fuli.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m26265m276.fsf@dhcp-09-43.bravo> (Jerome Truong's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:24:29 -0500")
tags 12692 notabug
close 12692
stop
Jerome Truong wrote:
> Why does the following return the whole string "this.is.an.example":
>
> (thing-at-point 'symbol)this.is.an.example
> ^
> |
> eval at point here
>
> but using a temp buffer only returns "this":
>
> (let ((type 'symbol)
> (string "this.is.an.example"))
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert string)
> (goto-char 1)
> (let ((thing (thing-at-point type)))
> (message "%s" thing))))
Depends on the syntax table in use. Replace your second example with
(let ((type 'symbol)
(string "this.is.an.example"))
(with-temp-buffer
(insert string)
(goto-char 1)
(with-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table
(let ((thing (thing-at-point type)))
(message "%s" thing)))))
HTH; maybe try help-gnu-emacs first next time?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-21 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 18:24 bug#12692: 24.1; thing-at-point in temp buffer Jerome Truong
2012-10-20 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-20 18:49 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-21 2:05 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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