From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
npostavs@gmail.com, 39512@debbugs.gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#39512: 28.0.50; Add command isearch-yank-region
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 23:52:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735vrgx8p.fsf@linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200813031420.7vq5bz7loeqiuntx@Ergus> (Ergus's message of "Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:14:20 +0200")
> So without any other alternative, `M-s M-.` will be good enough. In
> general it would be better (for consistency) if we "reserve" `M-.`
> "suffixes" for future thing-at-point-or-region commands right?
>
>> In the previous message you sent a link to `ivy-thing-at-point` that
>> also uses (thing-at-point 'url) and also tries to get a filename at point.
>> Do you think `thing-at-point-or-region` should do the same?
>
> With the interactive experience in mind I think this could make sense as
> it does in `ivy-thing-at-point`.
>
> In my opinion from the api point of view, the important modification
> could be the method to know the "kind the thing" detected after calling
> the function (region, word, symbol, url) but also a function to get the
> bounds instead of the text (like bounds-of-thing-at-point-or-region).
I continued trying to do what you suggested some time ago
and immediately stumbled upon a question what "thing"
to use by default as an argument of '(thing-at-point thing)'?
Trying these priorities:
(or (thing-at-point 'region)
(thing-at-point 'url)
;; (thing-at-point 'filename)
;; (thing-at-point 'list)
(thing-at-point 'symbol))
has several problems:
1. There is no such "thing" as 'region'. Maybe could be added to thingatpt.el?
2. 'url' returns nil when there is no url at point, good. But
'filename' returns non-nil on any string, not only on real filenames.
3. It would be nice to use (thing-at-point 'list) only when point
is on the open/close parens. This is how double-clicking by mouse
selects the thing at point of mouse click. When clicked on a paren,
the whole list is selected by 'mouse-start-end'.
'isearch-forward-thing-at-point' could be the same logic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-15 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-08 18:04 bug#39512: 28.0.50; Add command isearch-yank-region Tino Calancha
2020-02-08 23:47 ` Ergus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-02-09 0:31 ` Juri Linkov
2020-02-09 11:21 ` Tino Calancha
2020-02-09 12:38 ` Tino Calancha
2020-02-10 0:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-02-12 22:10 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-09 11:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-09 23:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-10 1:19 ` Ergus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-10 23:49 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-11 1:12 ` Ergus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-11 23:13 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-12 17:41 ` Ergus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-12 23:44 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-13 3:14 ` Ergus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-15 20:52 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-04-18 15:34 ` Ergus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-20 20:29 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-21 20:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-10 17:00 ` Tino Calancha
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