Re: buffer segments, uniform and automatic (was: Re: [Elisp: 8 out of 10 problems] I think the last one! (point))

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> So as for the segments in a text mode buffer, as for
> point (2), it would look something like:
> ...
>   [ buffer [ paragraphs [ sentences [words] ] ] ]
>
> Definitions of each has to be setup manually and individually,
> as for (1), so for example for word it could be
> ...
> Then the program will define a set of functions for each
> segment type, the same for each.
>
> Note that so many common operations can be defined from the
> definition, i.e. the (BEG END) pair:
>
> -len is (- END BEG)
> -reg is (BEG END)
> -beg is BEG
> -end is END
> -cur is (buffer-substring-no-properties BEG END)
> ...

Check out thingatpt.el: `beginning-of-thing', `end-of-thing',
`thing-at-point', etc.

"thing" can be anything, including page, paragraph, word, link, sexp, etc

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