Re: thing-at-point-utils 1.12.5

[Richard Riley]

Andreas Roehler <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> proudly announcing a new version,
> some words about the changes:
>
> thing-at-point-utils comes with a lot of commands like
> `doublequote-graph-atpt', `brace-alnum-atpt' etc.
>
> Its too many to specify (and remember) keys for all of it IMO.
> Thus M-x COMMAND will be used quite often.
>
> OTOH sometimes it might be of interest, to examine the
> object first, before dealing with it.
>
> Then its seems convenient, for example with a call
> `graph-atpt' (the character-class [[:graph:]])
> to have these characters highlighted.
>
> With new var `thing-mark-region', t per default, region now is
> activated respective to THING. Thus commands operating on
> region may follow, for example `doublequote-region-atpt'.
>
> Now the key-set-question is to answers different, as the
> commands operating on region count much more less in
> numbers.
>
> So I have set the following:
>
> (global-set-key [(control \))] 'parentize-region-atpt)
> (global-set-key [(control })] 'brace-region-atpt)
> (global-set-key [(control \])] 'bracket-region-atpt)
>
> Comments welcome.

Are you aware of the useful thingatpt+ libraries from Drew Adams which
extend thingatpt? What is the crossover/overlap?

>
>
> Andreas Röhler
>
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