From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp to open a line-wrapped URL Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:01:05 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86woz0q1oe.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519589015 28754 195.159.176.226 (25 Feb 2018 20:03:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:03:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 25 21:03:31 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eq2WA-00077V-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:03:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eq2YD-0007Ob-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:05:37 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QDQe2QACrGIpDT/FZ027M2KFAYQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221961 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116076 Archived-At: ckhan wrote: > Say I like wrapping my code at 80cols. > But say I also occasionally include URLs in comments . > > So I might wind up with something like this > > # See also Google Drive generated py docs: > # https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/ > # documentation/drive/v2/python/latest/ > # drive_v2.permissions.html#insert > > How do I teach emacs to open the URL that is > near my cursor, even though it's split across > lines with comment markers in between? Simple, search for the next URL! (defun look-for-url () (interactive) (let ((url nil)) (while (not (setq url (thing-at-point 'url t))) (forward-char 1)) ; will fail at EOB (w3m-goto-url url) )) ; so here the URL is always fine Probably searching can be done more efficiently tho, e.g. a regexp search for the next URL... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573