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- ;;; thingatpt.el --- Get the `thing' at point
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1991,1992,1993,1994,1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Mike Williams <mikew@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
- ;; Keywords: extensions, matching, mouse
- ;; Created: Thu Mar 28 13:48:23 1991
-
- ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ;; any later version.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; This file provides routines for getting the `thing' at the location of
- ;; point, whatever that `thing' happens to be. The `thing' is defined by
- ;; it's beginning and end positions in the buffer.
- ;;
- ;; 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).
- ;;
- ;; Special cases are allowed for using properties associated with the named
- ;; `thing':
- ;;
- ;; forward-op Function to call to skip forward over a `thing' (or
- ;; with a negative argument, backward).
- ;;
- ;; beginning-op Function to call to skip to the beginning of a `thing'.
- ;; end-op Function to call to skip to the end of a `thing'.
- ;;
- ;; Reliance on existing operators means that many `things' can be accessed
- ;; without further code: eg.
- ;; (thing-at-point 'line)
- ;; (thing-at-point 'page)
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (provide 'thingatpt)
-
- ;; Basic movement
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun forward-thing (THING &optional N)
- "Move forward to the end of the next THING."
- (let ((forward-op (or (get THING 'forward-op)
- (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" THING)))))
- (if (fboundp forward-op)
- (funcall forward-op (or N 1))
- (error "Can't determine how to move over %ss" THING))))
-
- ;; General routines
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun bounds-of-thing-at-point (THING)
- "Determine the start and end buffer locations for the THING at point,
- where THING is an entity for which there is a either a corresponding
- forward-THING operation, or corresponding beginning-of-THING and
- end-of-THING operations, eg. 'word, 'sentence, 'defun.
- Return a cons cell '(start . end) giving the start and end positions."
- (let ((orig (point)))
- (condition-case nil
- (save-excursion
- (let ((end (progn
- (funcall
- (or (get THING 'end-op)
- (function (lambda () (forward-thing THING 1)))))
- (point)))
- (beg (progn
- (funcall
- (or (get THING 'beginning-op)
- (function (lambda () (forward-thing THING -1)))))
- (point))))
- (if (and beg end (<= beg orig) (< orig end))
- (cons beg end))))
- (error nil))))
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun thing-at-point (THING)
- "Return the THING at point, where THING is an entity defined by
- bounds-of-thing-at-point."
- (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point THING)))
- (if bounds
- (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds)))))
-
- ;; Go to beginning/end
-
- (defun beginning-of-thing (THING)
- (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point THING)))
- (or bounds (error "No %s here" THING))
- (goto-char (car bounds))))
-
- (defun end-of-thing (THING)
- (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point THING)))
- (or bounds (error "No %s here" THING))
- (goto-char (cdr bounds))))
-
- ;; Special cases
-
- ;; Lines
-
- ;; bolp will be false when you click on the last line in the buffer
- ;; and it has no final newline.
-
- (put 'line 'beginning-op
- (function (lambda () (if (bolp) (forward-line -1) (beginning-of-line)))))
-
- ;; Sexps
-
- (defun in-string-p ()
- (let ((orig (point)))
- (save-excursion
- (beginning-of-defun)
- (nth 3 (parse-partial-sexp (point) orig)))))
-
- (defun end-of-sexp ()
- (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-after (point)))))
- (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\))
- (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
- (forward-char 1)
- (forward-sexp 1))))
-
- (put 'sexp 'end-op 'end-of-sexp)
-
- ;; Lists
-
- (put 'list 'end-op (function (lambda () (up-list 1))))
- (put 'list 'beginning-op 'backward-sexp)
-
- ;; Filenames
-
- (defvar file-name-chars "~/A-Za-z0-9---_.${}#%,"
- "Characters allowable in filenames.")
-
- (put 'filename 'end-op
- (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward file-name-chars))))
- (put 'filename 'beginning-op
- (function (lambda () (skip-chars-backward file-name-chars (point-min)))))
-
- ;; Whitespace
-
- (defun forward-whitespace (ARG)
- (interactive "p")
- (if (natnump ARG)
- (re-search-forward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil nil ARG)
- (while (< ARG 0)
- (if (re-search-backward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil nil)
- (or (eq (char-after (match-beginning 0)) 10)
- (skip-chars-backward " \t")))
- (setq ARG (1+ ARG)))))
-
- ;; Buffer
-
- (put 'buffer 'end-op 'end-of-buffer)
- (put 'buffer 'beginning-op 'beginning-of-buffer)
-
- ;; Symbols
-
- (defun forward-symbol (ARG)
- (interactive "p")
- (if (natnump ARG)
- (re-search-forward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil nil ARG)
- (while (< ARG 0)
- (if (re-search-backward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil nil)
- (skip-syntax-backward "w_"))
- (setq ARG (1+ ARG)))))
-
- ;; Syntax blocks
-
- (defun forward-same-syntax (&optional arg)
- (interactive "p")
- (while (< arg 0)
- (skip-syntax-backward
- (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-after (1- (point))))))
- (setq arg (1+ arg)))
- (while (> arg 0)
- (skip-syntax-forward (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-after (point)))))
- (setq arg (1- arg))))
-
- ;; Aliases
-
- (defun word-at-point () (thing-at-point 'word))
- (defun sentence-at-point () (thing-at-point 'sentence))
-
- (defun read-from-whole-string (STR)
- "Read a lisp expression from STR, signaling an error if the entire string
- was not used."
- (let* ((read-data (read-from-string STR))
- (more-left
- (condition-case nil
- (progn (read-from-string (substring STR (cdr read-data)))
- t)
- (end-of-file nil))))
- (if more-left
- (error "Can't read whole string")
- (car read-data))))
-
- (defun form-at-point (&optional THING PRED)
- (let ((sexp (condition-case nil
- (read-from-whole-string (thing-at-point (or THING 'sexp)))
- (error nil))))
- (if (or (not PRED) (funcall PRED sexp)) sexp)))
-
- (defun sexp-at-point () (form-at-point 'sexp))
- (defun symbol-at-point () (form-at-point 'sexp 'symbolp))
- (defun number-at-point () (form-at-point 'sexp 'numberp))
- (defun list-at-point () (form-at-point 'list 'listp))
-
- ;; thingatpt.el ends here.
-