From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x man could better guess neighboring word
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:40:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47624FA7.1030009@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763z1d7hg.fsf@jidanni.org>
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> My cursor is at "_":
> jidanni@fartzwadd:~$ crontab _
> and I do M-x man, and it doesn't prompt me with the default of
> crontab, instead I have to move the cursor back a bit and try again.
> emacs-version "22.1.1"
Please try the attached patch. Would you find it useful to
search previous lines, the remainder of the current line,
following lines? Should we skip any non-whitespace chars?
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*** man.el.~1.167.2.6.~ Thu Nov 29 19:51:20 2007
--- man.el Fri Dec 14 10:22:56 2007
***************
*** 652,657 ****
--- 652,658 ----
(if pos (goto-char pos))
;; Default man entry title is any word the cursor is on, or if
;; cursor not on a word, then nearest preceding word.
+ (skip-chars-backward " \t")
(skip-chars-backward "-a-zA-Z0-9._+:")
(let ((start (point)))
(skip-chars-forward "-a-zA-Z0-9._+:")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 8:07 M-x man could better guess neighboring word jidanni
2007-12-14 9:40 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2007-12-15 1:33 ` jidanni
2007-12-16 10:11 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-17 13:38 ` jidanni
2007-12-17 22:19 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-18 1:53 ` jidanni
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