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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point)
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:07:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xz39cgp.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88435424-afa3-d7a3-56ff-df9f0a2ca6ba@gmail.com>

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

>> Looking into the source code of `bounds-of-thing-at-point', I see that
>> for standard "things" (like url),
>> `thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point' is used unconditionally. In the
>> case of Org links, we may have something like [<point>[https://orgmode.org]]
>> that will not match default URL regexp as is. AFAIU, there is no
>> documented way to customize the behaviour of `bounds-of-thing-at-point'
>> and `forward-thing'.
>
> I think it would make sense to add some sort of 
> 'bounds-of-thing-at-point-provider-alist' (that's a mouthful!) that 
> would let modes override the behavior of 'botap', but I don't think 
> that's necessary for the narrower purpose of asking, "I want the value 
> of THING at point, if any."

It would make sense to add a number of alists:
- bounds-of-thing-at-point-provider-alist
- same for 'forward-op, 'beginning-op, 'end-op.

After Emacs have those, we can add Org mode support.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>



  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-05 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-06 19:45 [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point Jim Porter
2023-11-06 19:56 ` Jim Porter
2023-11-06 20:11 ` Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point) Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-06 20:53   ` Jim Porter
2024-02-05 15:07     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-02-05 22:44       ` Jim Porter
2024-02-05 22:56         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-06 12:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 12:38             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-06 12:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 12:41         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-12 22:30           ` Jim Porter
2024-04-29  4:26             ` Jim Porter
2024-04-29 18:14               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-30  4:42                 ` Jim Porter
2024-04-30 11:39                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-30 18:27                     ` Jim Porter
2024-04-30 21:10                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-05-07  1:08                         ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07  1:52                           ` Drew Adams
2024-05-07 12:20                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 15:16                               ` Drew Adams
2024-05-07 16:10                               ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 18:01                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-18  8:26                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-20  1:34                         ` Jim Porter
2024-05-20  2:33                           ` Jim Porter
2024-05-20 10:41                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-20 20:32                               ` Jim Porter
2024-05-25 14:09                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-26  5:33                                   ` Jim Porter
2024-05-26 12:56                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-26 17:03                                       ` Jim Porter
2024-05-21 10:32                             ` Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el Max Nikulin
2024-05-21 16:24                               ` Jim Porter
2024-05-22 13:30                                 ` Max Nikulin

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