From f30cf07ecba8f4316b268b7ad57705a0aa16d660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:58:09 +0100 Subject: Make symbol-at-point return nil if there's no symbols in the buffer * lisp/thingatpt.el (thing-at-point--beginning-of-symbol): Special op that errors out when there's no symbols in the buffer before point (bug#14234). (symbol): Use it. --- lisp/thingatpt.el | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'lisp/thingatpt.el') diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el index d3ba941fcc2..67d4092d407 100644 --- a/lisp/thingatpt.el +++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el @@ -218,6 +218,15 @@ The bounds of THING are determined by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'." (put 'sexp 'beginning-op 'thing-at-point--beginning-of-sexp) +;; Symbols + +(put 'symbol 'beginning-op 'thing-at-point--beginning-of-symbol) + +(defun thing-at-point--beginning-of-symbol () + "Move point to the beginning of the current symbol." + (and (re-search-backward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+") + (skip-syntax-backward "w_"))) + ;; Lists (put 'list 'bounds-of-thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point) -- cgit v1.2.3