From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for thingatpt.el Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184598782 26983 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2007 15:13:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 17:13:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IASFw-00039z-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:13:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IASFw-0002SR-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IASFu-0002SM-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IASFs-0002S9-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IASFs-0002S6-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IASFr-0007oL-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.195.27]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070716151255.DEZK25739.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 03920800B; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 15 Jul 2007 14\:08\:33 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74891 Archived-At: > Below is a patch for thingatpt.el that provides additional functionality and > new thing and form functions. In particular: (1) it lets you supply a > syntax-table argument to most functions, to affect the definition of what a > word etc. is, and (2) it provides functions to return things near point, not > just precisely at point. I believe that point 1 is misguided. We have `with-syntax-table' for those cases and it is quite sufficient AFAIK. Stefan