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1 ;;; thingatpt.el --- get the `thing' at point
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1991-1998, 2000-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Mike Williams <mikew@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: extensions, matching, mouse
8 ;; Created: Thu Mar 28 13:48:23 1991
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25 ;;; Commentary:
27 ;; This file provides routines for getting the "thing" at the location of
28 ;; point, whatever that "thing" happens to be. The "thing" is defined by
29 ;; its beginning and end positions in the buffer.
31 ;; The function bounds-of-thing-at-point finds the beginning and end
32 ;; positions by moving first forward to the end of the "thing", and then
33 ;; backwards to the beginning. By default, it uses the corresponding
34 ;; forward-"thing" operator (eg. forward-word, forward-line).
36 ;; Special cases are allowed for using properties associated with the named
37 ;; "thing":
39 ;; forward-op Function to call to skip forward over a "thing" (or
40 ;; with a negative argument, backward).
42 ;; beginning-op Function to call to skip to the beginning of a "thing".
43 ;; end-op Function to call to skip to the end of a "thing".
45 ;; Reliance on existing operators means that many `things' can be accessed
46 ;; without further code: eg.
47 ;; (thing-at-point 'line)
48 ;; (thing-at-point 'page)
50 ;;; Code:
52 (provide 'thingatpt)
54 ;; Basic movement
56 ;;;###autoload
57 (defun forward-thing (thing &optional n)
58 "Move forward to the end of the Nth next THING."
59 (let ((forward-op (or (get thing 'forward-op)
60 (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" thing)))))
61 (if (functionp forward-op)
62 (funcall forward-op (or n 1))
63 (error "Can't determine how to move over a %s" thing))))
65 ;; General routines
67 ;;;###autoload
68 (defun bounds-of-thing-at-point (thing)
69 "Determine the start and end buffer locations for the THING at point.
70 THING is a symbol which specifies the kind of syntactic entity you want.
71 Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `filename', `url',
72 `email', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', `page' and others.
74 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
75 a symbol as a valid THING.
77 The value is a cons cell (START . END) giving the start and end positions
78 of the textual entity that was found."
79 (if (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point)
80 (funcall (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point))
81 (let ((orig (point)))
82 (condition-case nil
83 (save-excursion
84 ;; Try moving forward, then back.
85 (funcall ;; First move to end.
86 (or (get thing 'end-op)
87 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
88 (funcall ;; Then move to beg.
89 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
90 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
91 (let ((beg (point)))
92 (if (not (and beg (> beg orig)))
93 ;; If that brings us all the way back to ORIG,
94 ;; it worked. But END may not be the real end.
95 ;; So find the real end that corresponds to BEG.
96 (let ((real-end
97 (progn
98 (funcall
99 (or (get thing 'end-op)
100 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
101 (point))))
102 (if (and beg real-end (<= beg orig) (<= orig real-end))
103 (cons beg real-end)))
104 (goto-char orig)
105 ;; Try a second time, moving backward first and then forward,
106 ;; so that we can find a thing that ends at ORIG.
107 (funcall ;; First, move to beg.
108 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
109 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
110 (funcall ;; Then move to end.
111 (or (get thing 'end-op)
112 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
113 (let ((end (point))
114 (real-beg
115 (progn
116 (funcall
117 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
118 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
119 (point))))
120 (if (and real-beg end (<= real-beg orig) (<= orig end))
121 (cons real-beg end))))))
122 (error nil)))))
124 ;;;###autoload
125 (defun thing-at-point (thing)
126 "Return the THING at point.
127 THING is a symbol which specifies the kind of syntactic entity you want.
128 Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `filename', `url',
129 `email', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', `page' and others.
131 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
132 a symbol as a valid THING."
133 (if (get thing 'thing-at-point)
134 (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point))
135 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
136 (if bounds
137 (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds))))))
139 ;; Go to beginning/end
141 (defun beginning-of-thing (thing)
142 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
143 (or bounds (error "No %s here" thing))
144 (goto-char (car bounds))))
146 (defun end-of-thing (thing)
147 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
148 (or bounds (error "No %s here" thing))
149 (goto-char (cdr bounds))))
151 ;; Special cases
153 ;; Lines
155 ;; bolp will be false when you click on the last line in the buffer
156 ;; and it has no final newline.
158 (put 'line 'beginning-op
159 (lambda () (if (bolp) (forward-line -1) (beginning-of-line))))
161 ;; Sexps
163 (defun in-string-p ()
164 (let ((orig (point)))
165 (save-excursion
166 (beginning-of-defun)
167 (nth 3 (parse-partial-sexp (point) orig)))))
169 (defun end-of-sexp ()
170 (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-after))))
171 (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\))
172 (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
173 (forward-char 1)
174 (forward-sexp 1))))
176 (put 'sexp 'end-op 'end-of-sexp)
178 (defun beginning-of-sexp ()
179 (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-before))))
180 (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\()
181 (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
182 (forward-char -1)
183 (forward-sexp -1))))
185 (put 'sexp 'beginning-op 'beginning-of-sexp)
187 ;; Lists
189 (put 'list 'bounds-of-thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point)
191 (defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point ()
192 (save-excursion
193 (let ((opoint (point))
194 (beg (condition-case nil
195 (progn (up-list -1)
196 (point))
197 (error nil))))
198 (condition-case nil
199 (if beg
200 (progn (forward-sexp)
201 (cons beg (point)))
202 ;; Are we are at the beginning of a top-level sexp?
203 (forward-sexp)
204 (let ((end (point)))
205 (backward-sexp)
206 (if (>= opoint (point))
207 (cons opoint end))))
208 (error nil)))))
210 ;; Filenames and URLs www.com/foo%32bar
212 (defvar thing-at-point-file-name-chars "-~/[:alnum:]_.${}#%,:"
213 "Characters allowable in filenames.")
215 (put 'filename 'end-op
216 (lambda ()
217 (re-search-forward (concat "\\=[" thing-at-point-file-name-chars "]*")
218 nil t)))
219 (put 'filename 'beginning-op
220 (lambda ()
221 (if (re-search-backward (concat "[^" thing-at-point-file-name-chars "]")
222 nil t)
223 (forward-char)
224 (goto-char (point-min)))))
226 (defvar thing-at-point-url-path-regexp
227 "[^]\t\n \"'<>[^`{}]*[^]\t\n \"'<>[^`{}.,;]+"
228 "A regular expression probably matching the host and filename or e-mail part of a URL.")
230 (defvar thing-at-point-short-url-regexp
231 (concat "[-A-Za-z0-9.]+" thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)
232 "A regular expression probably matching a URL without an access scheme.
233 Hostname matching is stricter in this case than for
234 ``thing-at-point-url-regexp''.")
236 (defvar thing-at-point-uri-schemes
237 ;; Officials from http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html
238 '("ftp://" "http://" "gopher://" "mailto:" "news:" "nntp:"
239 "telnet://" "wais://" "file:/" "prospero:" "z39.50s:" "z39.50r:"
240 "cid:" "mid:" "vemmi:" "service:" "imap:" "nfs:" "acap:" "rtsp:"
241 "tip:" "pop:" "data:" "dav:" "opaquelocktoken:" "sip:" "tel:" "fax:"
242 "modem:" "ldap:" "https://" "soap.beep:" "soap.beeps:" "urn:" "go:"
243 "afs:" "tn3270:" "mailserver:"
244 "crid:" "dict:" "dns:" "dtn:" "h323:" "im:" "info:" "ipp:"
245 "iris.beep:" "mtqp:" "mupdate:" "pres:" "sips:" "snmp:" "tag:"
246 "tftp:" "xmlrpc.beep:" "xmlrpc.beeps:" "xmpp:"
247 ;; Compatibility
248 "snews:" "irc:" "mms://" "mmsh://")
249 "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes.")
251 (defvar thing-at-point-url-regexp
252 (concat "\\<\\(" (mapconcat 'identity thing-at-point-uri-schemes "\\|") "\\)"
253 thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)
254 "A regular expression probably matching a complete URL.")
256 (defvar thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp
257 "<URL:[^>]+>"
258 "A regular expression matching a URL marked up per RFC1738.
259 This may contain whitespace (including newlines) .")
261 (put 'url 'bounds-of-thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)
262 (defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point ()
263 (let ((strip (thing-at-point-looking-at
264 thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp))) ;; (url "") short
265 (if (or strip
266 (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-url-regexp)
267 ;; Access scheme omitted?
268 ;; (setq short (thing-at-point-looking-at
269 ;; thing-at-point-short-url-regexp))
271 (let ((beginning (match-beginning 0))
272 (end (match-end 0)))
273 (when strip
274 (setq beginning (+ beginning 5))
275 (setq end (- end 1)))
276 (cons beginning end)))))
278 (put 'url 'thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-url-at-point)
279 (defun thing-at-point-url-at-point ()
280 "Return the URL around or before point.
282 Search backwards for the start of a URL ending at or after point. If
283 no URL found, return nil. The access scheme will be prepended if
284 absent: \"mailto:\" if the string contains \"@\", \"ftp://\" if it
285 starts with \"ftp\" and not \"ftp:/\", or \"http://\" by default."
287 (let ((url "") short strip)
288 (if (or (setq strip (thing-at-point-looking-at
289 thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp))
290 (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-url-regexp)
291 ;; Access scheme omitted?
292 (setq short (thing-at-point-looking-at
293 thing-at-point-short-url-regexp)))
294 (progn
295 (setq url (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning 0)
296 (match-end 0)))
297 (and strip (setq url (substring url 5 -1))) ; Drop "<URL:" & ">"
298 ;; strip whitespace
299 (while (string-match "[ \t\n\r]+" url)
300 (setq url (replace-match "" t t url)))
301 (and short (setq url (concat (cond ((string-match "^[a-zA-Z]+:" url)
302 ;; already has a URL scheme.
304 ((string-match "@" url)
305 "mailto:")
306 ;; e.g. ftp.swiss... or ftp-swiss...
307 ((string-match "^ftp" url)
308 "ftp://")
309 (t "http://"))
310 url)))
311 (if (string-equal "" url)
313 url)))))
315 ;; The normal thingatpt mechanism doesn't work for complex regexps.
316 ;; This should work for almost any regexp wherever we are in the
317 ;; match. To do a perfect job for any arbitrary regexp would mean
318 ;; testing every position before point. Regexp searches won't find
319 ;; matches that straddle the start position so we search forwards once
320 ;; and then back repeatedly and then back up a char at a time.
322 (defun thing-at-point-looking-at (regexp)
323 "Return non-nil if point is in or just after a match for REGEXP.
324 Set the match data from the earliest such match ending at or after
325 point."
326 (save-excursion
327 (let ((old-point (point)) match)
328 (and (looking-at regexp)
329 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
330 (setq match (point)))
331 ;; Search back repeatedly from end of next match.
332 ;; This may fail if next match ends before this match does.
333 (re-search-forward regexp nil 'limit)
334 (while (and (re-search-backward regexp nil t)
335 (or (> (match-beginning 0) old-point)
336 (and (looking-at regexp) ; Extend match-end past search start
337 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
338 (setq match (point))))))
339 (if (not match) nil
340 (goto-char match)
341 ;; Back up a char at a time in case search skipped
342 ;; intermediate match straddling search start pos.
343 (while (and (not (bobp))
344 (progn (backward-char 1) (looking-at regexp))
345 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
346 (setq match (point))))
347 (goto-char match)
348 (looking-at regexp)))))
350 (put 'url 'end-op
351 (lambda ()
352 (let ((bounds (thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)))
353 (if bounds
354 (goto-char (cdr bounds))
355 (error "No URL here")))))
356 (put 'url 'beginning-op
357 (lambda ()
358 (let ((bounds (thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)))
359 (if bounds
360 (goto-char (car bounds))
361 (error "No URL here")))))
363 ;; Email addresses
364 (defvar thing-at-point-email-regexp
365 "<?[-+_.~a-zA-Z][-+_.~:a-zA-Z0-9]*@[-.a-zA-Z0-9]+>?"
366 "A regular expression probably matching an email address.
367 This does not match the real name portion, only the address, optionally
368 with angle brackets.")
370 ;; Haven't set 'forward-op on 'email nor defined 'forward-email' because
371 ;; not sure they're actually needed, and URL seems to skip them too.
372 ;; Note that (end-of-thing 'email) and (beginning-of-thing 'email)
373 ;; work automagically, though.
375 (put 'email 'bounds-of-thing-at-point
376 (lambda ()
377 (let ((thing (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-email-regexp)))
378 (if thing
379 (let ((beginning (match-beginning 0))
380 (end (match-end 0)))
381 (cons beginning end))))))
383 (put 'email 'thing-at-point
384 (lambda ()
385 (let ((boundary-pair (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'email)))
386 (if boundary-pair
387 (buffer-substring-no-properties
388 (car boundary-pair) (cdr boundary-pair))))))
390 ;; Whitespace
392 (defun forward-whitespace (arg)
393 (interactive "p")
394 (if (natnump arg)
395 (re-search-forward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil 'move arg)
396 (while (< arg 0)
397 (if (re-search-backward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil 'move)
398 (or (eq (char-after (match-beginning 0)) 10)
399 (skip-chars-backward " \t")))
400 (setq arg (1+ arg)))))
402 ;; Buffer
404 (put 'buffer 'end-op (lambda () (goto-char (point-max))))
405 (put 'buffer 'beginning-op (lambda () (goto-char (point-min))))
407 ;; Symbols
409 (defun forward-symbol (arg)
410 (interactive "p")
411 (if (natnump arg)
412 (re-search-forward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil 'move arg)
413 (while (< arg 0)
414 (if (re-search-backward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil 'move)
415 (skip-syntax-backward "w_"))
416 (setq arg (1+ arg)))))
418 ;; Syntax blocks
420 (defun forward-same-syntax (&optional arg)
421 (interactive "p")
422 (while (< arg 0)
423 (skip-syntax-backward
424 (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-before))))
425 (setq arg (1+ arg)))
426 (while (> arg 0)
427 (skip-syntax-forward (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-after))))
428 (setq arg (1- arg))))
430 ;; Aliases
432 (defun word-at-point () (thing-at-point 'word))
433 (defun sentence-at-point () (thing-at-point 'sentence))
435 (defun read-from-whole-string (str)
436 "Read a Lisp expression from STR.
437 Signal an error if the entire string was not used."
438 (let* ((read-data (read-from-string str))
439 (more-left
440 (condition-case nil
441 ;; The call to `ignore' suppresses a compiler warning.
442 (progn (ignore (read-from-string (substring str (cdr read-data))))
444 (end-of-file nil))))
445 (if more-left
446 (error "Can't read whole string")
447 (car read-data))))
449 (defun form-at-point (&optional thing pred)
450 (let ((sexp (condition-case nil
451 (read-from-whole-string (thing-at-point (or thing 'sexp)))
452 (error nil))))
453 (if (or (not pred) (funcall pred sexp)) sexp)))
455 ;;;###autoload
456 (defun sexp-at-point ()
457 "Return the sexp at point, or nil if none is found."
458 (form-at-point 'sexp))
459 ;;;###autoload
460 (defun symbol-at-point ()
461 "Return the symbol at point, or nil if none is found."
462 (let ((thing (thing-at-point 'symbol)))
463 (if thing (intern thing))))
464 ;;;###autoload
465 (defun number-at-point ()
466 "Return the number at point, or nil if none is found."
467 (form-at-point 'sexp 'numberp))
468 ;;;###autoload
469 (defun list-at-point ()
470 "Return the Lisp list at point, or nil if none is found."
471 (form-at-point 'list 'listp))
473 ;;; thingatpt.el ends here