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Re: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs
From: |
Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Nov 2020 23:36:25 +0100 |
When I tried I got "Can't find library thingatapt"
M-x finder-commentary thingatpt
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2020 at 11:06 PM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> Subject: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs
>
> > Looking at thingatpt.el is not helpful.
>
> It's very helpful. It directly answers your question.
>
> Or perhaps you meant that needing to look at that file
> is a burden. That's different from saying that if you
> do look in the file you find no help.
>
> > If you know important things that are useful to know
> > about it, place it at the top of the file.
>
> Define "top" of the file. Elisp files have certain
> things, conventionally, at the very top.
>
> One of the things they can have near the top, i.e.,
> in the file header, is a Commentary section, which is
> documentation.
>
> And lo and behold, what do we find there, in lines
> 4-7 of the Commentary?
>
> The function bounds-of-thing-at-point finds the beginning and end
> positions by moving first forward to the end of the "thing", and then
> backwards to the beginning. By default, it uses the corresponding
> forward-"thing" operator (eg. forward-word, forward-line).
>
> That directly answers your question, no?
>
> What happens when you do `C-h f forward- TAB'? Do you
> see `forward-paragraph' listed? QED.
>
> > I customarily define a documentation function for the file so that it
> > would be available interactively, even if mostly of interest to Elisp
> > Designers.
>
> You want interactive access to just the Commentary?
> Your wish is granted:
>
> M-x finder-commentary thingatpt
>
> That's how I got the text to include in my answer to
> you, without having to remove comment chars (`;').
>
> (And yes, you can use `TAB' with `finder-commentary'
> to see all of the currently available libraries as
> candidates.)
>
>
- bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/01
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Jean Louis, 2020/11/01
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/01
- RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/01
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Jean Louis, 2020/11/01
- RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/01
- Re: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/01
- RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/01
- Re: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs,
Christopher Dimech <=
- Re: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Jean Louis, 2020/11/01
- RE: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/01
- Re: RE: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/01
- RE: RE: RE: RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/01
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Robert Thorpe, 2020/11/01
- RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/02
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Corwin Brust, 2020/11/03
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Stefan Kangas, 2020/11/03
- Re: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Corwin Brust, 2020/11/03
- RE: bounds-of-thing-at-point for paragraphs, Drew Adams, 2020/11/03