From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gnuist006@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Whats the status of forward-thing ? Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:10:44 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1193004644.614345.317590@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193006666 9465 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2007 22:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:44:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 00:44:27 2007 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 1IjjWy-0004Fe-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:44:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjjWr-00025h-1a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:44:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 57 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.209.100.238 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1193004645 18937 127.0.0.1 (21 Oct 2007 22:10:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:10:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.209.100.238; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153185 gnu.emacs.bug:43727 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:48685 Archived-At: With reference to the post 7 years ago, what is the status of forward-thing ? What does it exactly do ? gnuist From: klarl...@research.att.com (Nils Klarlund) Subject: forward-thing in thingatpt.el Date: 2000/06/01 Message-ID: <200006011538.LAA13391@alliance.research.att.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 629922605 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-requ...@mail.gnu.org Approved: bug-gnu-emacs-requ...@mail.gnu.org x-uunet-gateway: dfw7sosrv11.alter.net from bug-gnu-emacs to gnu.emacs.bug; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:38:56 GMT Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) of Tue Feb 29 2000 on buffy configured using `configure NT' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: forward-thing doesn't work with forward-op's that are lambda expressions, change ---> (defun forward-thing (thing &optional n) "Move forward to the end of the next THING." (let ((forward-op (or (get thing 'forward-op) (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" thing))))) (if (fboundp forward-op) (funcall forward-op (or n 1)) (error "Can't determine how to move over a %s" thing)))) to ---> (defun forward-thing (THING &optional N) "Move forward to the end of the next THING." (let ((forward-op (or (get THING 'forward-op) (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" THING))))) (if (indirect-function forward-op) (funcall forward-op (or N 1)) (error "Can't determine how to move over %ss" THING)))) /Nils