Re: Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> Ihor, Eli: What do you think of the attached patch? I added variables to 
> let modes define custom providers for 'bounds-of-thing-at-point' and 
> 'forward-thing'. (Notably, I avoided adding vars for the 
> 'beginning-of-thing' and 'end-of-thing' functions, since those just call 
> 'bounds-of-thing-at-point' anyway.)
>
> If this looks like a reasonable way to go, I'll continue work on this 
> patch by adding entries to 'bounds-of-thing-at-point-provider-alist' and 
> 'forward-thing-provider-alist' in the appropriate places (i.e. wherever 
> we already add to 'thing-at-point-provider-alist', like in EWW).

Thanks!
I have a small comment on the docstring of
`forward-thing-provider-alist' - it refers to
`thing-at-point-provider-alist', but the provides here are called with
an argument N, unlike the providers in `thing-at-point-provider-alist'.

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