From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Grab and yank Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:47:14 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264355297 29466 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2010 17:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:48:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 24 18:48:10 2010 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 1NZ6ZF-0003eL-Ik for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:48:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ6ZG-0000fA-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ6Ys-0000f4-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:47:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ6Yn-0000ej-8d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:47:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40261 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ6Yn-0000ee-1k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:47:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59851) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZ6Ym-0004fe-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:47:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NZ6Yh-0003U5-Jx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:47:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:47:35 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:47:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71427 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> >> thingatpt+ might be a good place for this? >> >> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/thingatpt+.el >> > >> > Why? >> >> It's an existing documented library of things that >> specialises in doing "things at point"... > > I think Andrea wanted something that: > > (a) goes and gets a function definition > (from a tags file or the function's source code) > (b) returns to the original location, and > (c) yanks the definition at point. > > The thing-at-pt functions pick up stuff at or near point. > They don't (and shouldn't) do excursion stuff or yanking. > > That said, these functions in `thingatpt+.el' might be of some use in this > context: `region-or-word-nearest-point', `region-or-word-at-point'. They pick up > the active region or (if inactive) the word nearest/at point. > That was my thinking of it. And to be honest I'm not sure yank is out of the realms of a "thing at pt" functionality. Anyway, I wanted to bring attention to the library too since that might well help Andrea. I know it did me when I first started scratching around trying to find simple functions to get the word or region at pt without needing to learn about the myriad of ways mark and point interact. -- Google Talk : rileyrgdev@googlemail.com http://www.google.com/talk ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML email X & vCards / \