In my experience it is often that I search for something under the cursor, so it <br>makes sense for occur to pick up the word at point and offer that for search.<br><br>Also, if a region is selected occur could offer this as input.<br><br>I did these for myself long ago and it's a pretty useful hack which could improve<br>built in occur too.<br><br>So something like this for initial input :<br><br><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (if (use-region-p)<br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))<br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (thing-at-point 'symbol))))))<br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><br><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>