Re: Underscore in filenames and M-x locate

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Holger Sparr wrote:
> When using M-x locate the default pattern to use is evaluated by
> `locate-word-at-point'. 
> 
> Why isn't the Underscore included in the expression of characters to
> skip for a sensible default value?

Uh, because underscore is not a _word_ constituent character?
Still, locate-word-at-point could be changed to use \sw instead
of [-a-zA-Z0-9.]

In any case, apparently it's been that way since Peter Breton's
original implementation on 2000-03-30.

> Possibly the expression could be customized by the user or the active
> region could be passed as the search-string.

You could try:

(require 'locate)
(defalias 'locate-word-at-point 'word-at-point)
(autoload 'word-at-point "thingatpt")

or:

(require 'locate)
(defalias 'locate-word-at-point
	  (lambda () (symbol-name symbol-at-point)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA