Re: FFAP

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> By "integration" I mostly mean the functionality, not necessarily
>> the code.  But if it means preloading ffap.el, that's not necessarily
>> a bad thing, although I think that by integrating it, we can make it
>> a lot simpler, so I expect that a complete rewrite will be preferable
>> (especially since we probably wouldn't provide every single last detail
>> of ffap's functionality).
> I forgot that we already have a clean and small counterpart of ffap
> that can be preloaded instead of ffap.el.  It is thingatpt.el.
> With (thing-at-point 'filename) it returns the filename at point,
> and with (thing-at-point 'url) it returns the URL at point.

I think it'd be important to make it mode-aware, so that when you're on
a (require 'foo) or on a #include "bar", it can find the relevant file.
So (thing-at-point 'filename) wouldn't quite cut it as it stands.


        Stefan