From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copy whitespace-delimited text to variable
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 07:10:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zi3jqer1.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10256.1520462425.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Tim Johnson wrote:
> Example: in elpy
> g.args (where cursor is at or following 's')
> (current-word) would just return 'args', I need 'g.args'
> and I don't wish to modify the syntax table.
>
> Before I roll my own, I'd rather not
> re-invent the wheel...
Why not? To quote the barrel racer, just try -
and you will fly :)
(defun previous-word ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(let((word-stop (progn (backward-word 1)
(forward-word 1)
(point) ))
(word-start (re-search-backward "[[:space:]]" (point-min) t)) )
(when word-start
(message
(string-trim
(buffer-substring-no-properties word-start word-stop) ))))))
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2018-03-08 6:10 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-03-08 6:37 ` Copy whitespace-delimited text to variable Emanuel Berg
2018-03-08 16:15 ` Tim Johnson
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2018-03-09 6:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 16:20 ` Tim Johnson
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2018-03-11 0:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-11 16:18 ` Tim Johnson
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2018-03-11 22:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-07 22:40 Tim Johnson
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