From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Underscore in filenames and M-x locate Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 00:19:54 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178173232 11070 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2007 06:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 06:20:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 08:20:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjUg2-0007RB-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 08:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUmW-0006AD-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 02:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUmK-0006A8-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 02:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUmI-00069w-Jl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 02:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUmI-00069t-E8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 02:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjUfn-0008KY-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 02:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUff-0001SQ-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 08:20:07 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 08:20:07 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 08:20:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43566 Archived-At: 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