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1 ;;; thingatpt.el --- get the `thing' at point
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000,
4 ;; 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 ;; Author: Mike Williams <mikew@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
7 ;; Maintainer: FSF
8 ;; Keywords: extensions, matching, mouse
9 ;; Created: Thu Mar 28 13:48:23 1991
11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
16 ;; any later version.
18 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
21 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
23 ;;; Commentary:
25 ;; This file provides routines for getting the "thing" at the location of
26 ;; point, whatever that "thing" happens to be. The "thing" is defined by
27 ;; its beginning and end positions in the buffer.
29 ;; The function bounds-of-thing-at-point finds the beginning and end
30 ;; positions by moving first forward to the end of the "thing", and then
31 ;; backwards to the beginning. By default, it uses the corresponding
32 ;; forward-"thing" operator (eg. forward-word, forward-line).
34 ;; Special cases are allowed for using properties associated with the named
35 ;; "thing":
37 ;; forward-op Function to call to skip forward over a "thing" (or
38 ;; with a negative argument, backward).
40 ;; beginning-op Function to call to skip to the beginning of a "thing".
41 ;; end-op Function to call to skip to the end of a "thing".
43 ;; Reliance on existing operators means that many `things' can be accessed
44 ;; without further code: eg.
45 ;; (thing-at-point 'line)
46 ;; (thing-at-point 'page)
48 ;;; Code:
50 (provide 'thingatpt)
52 ;; Basic movement
54 ;;;###autoload
55 (defun forward-thing (thing &optional n)
56 "Move forward to the end of the Nth next THING."
57 (let ((forward-op (or (get thing 'forward-op)
58 (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" thing)))))
59 (if (functionp forward-op)
60 (funcall forward-op (or n 1))
61 (error "Can't determine how to move over a %s" thing))))
63 ;; General routines
65 ;;;###autoload
66 (defun bounds-of-thing-at-point (thing)
67 "Determine the start and end buffer locations for the THING at point.
68 THING is a symbol which specifies the kind of syntactic entity you want.
69 Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `filename', `url',
70 `email', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', `page' and others.
72 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
73 a symbol as a valid THING.
75 The value is a cons cell (START . END) giving the start and end positions
76 of the textual entity that was found."
77 (if (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point)
78 (funcall (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point))
79 (let ((orig (point)))
80 (condition-case nil
81 (save-excursion
82 ;; Try moving forward, then back.
83 (funcall ;; First move to end.
84 (or (get thing 'end-op)
85 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
86 (funcall ;; Then move to beg.
87 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
88 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
89 (let ((beg (point)))
90 (if (not (and beg (> beg orig)))
91 ;; If that brings us all the way back to ORIG,
92 ;; it worked. But END may not be the real end.
93 ;; So find the real end that corresponds to BEG.
94 (let ((real-end
95 (progn
96 (funcall
97 (or (get thing 'end-op)
98 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
99 (point))))
100 (if (and beg real-end (<= beg orig) (<= orig real-end))
101 (cons beg real-end)))
102 (goto-char orig)
103 ;; Try a second time, moving backward first and then forward,
104 ;; so that we can find a thing that ends at ORIG.
105 (funcall ;; First, move to beg.
106 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
107 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
108 (funcall ;; Then move to end.
109 (or (get thing 'end-op)
110 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
111 (let ((end (point))
112 (real-beg
113 (progn
114 (funcall
115 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
116 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
117 (point))))
118 (if (and real-beg end (<= real-beg orig) (<= orig end))
119 (cons real-beg end))))))
120 (error nil)))))
122 ;;;###autoload
123 (defun thing-at-point (thing)
124 "Return the THING at point.
125 THING is a symbol which specifies the kind of syntactic entity you want.
126 Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `filename', `url',
127 `email', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', `page' and others.
129 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
130 a symbol as a valid THING."
131 (if (get thing 'thing-at-point)
132 (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point))
133 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
134 (if bounds
135 (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds))))))
137 ;; Go to beginning/end
139 (defun beginning-of-thing (thing)
140 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
141 (or bounds (error "No %s here" thing))
142 (goto-char (car bounds))))
144 (defun end-of-thing (thing)
145 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
146 (or bounds (error "No %s here" thing))
147 (goto-char (cdr bounds))))
149 ;; Special cases
151 ;; Lines
153 ;; bolp will be false when you click on the last line in the buffer
154 ;; and it has no final newline.
156 (put 'line 'beginning-op
157 (lambda () (if (bolp) (forward-line -1) (beginning-of-line))))
159 ;; Sexps
161 (defun in-string-p ()
162 (let ((orig (point)))
163 (save-excursion
164 (beginning-of-defun)
165 (nth 3 (parse-partial-sexp (point) orig)))))
167 (defun end-of-sexp ()
168 (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-after (point)))))
169 (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\))
170 (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
171 (forward-char 1)
172 (forward-sexp 1))))
174 (put 'sexp 'end-op 'end-of-sexp)
176 (defun beginning-of-sexp ()
177 (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-before (point)))))
178 (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\()
179 (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
180 (forward-char -1)
181 (forward-sexp -1))))
183 (put 'sexp 'beginning-op 'beginning-of-sexp)
185 ;; Lists
187 (put 'list 'end-op (lambda () (up-list 1)))
188 (put 'list 'beginning-op 'backward-sexp)
190 ;; Filenames and URLs www.com/foo%32bar
192 (defvar thing-at-point-file-name-chars "-~/[:alnum:]_.${}#%,:"
193 "Characters allowable in filenames.")
195 (put 'filename 'end-op
196 (lambda ()
197 (re-search-forward (concat "\\=[" thing-at-point-file-name-chars "]*")
198 nil t)))
199 (put 'filename 'beginning-op
200 (lambda ()
201 (if (re-search-backward (concat "[^" thing-at-point-file-name-chars "]")
202 nil t)
203 (forward-char)
204 (goto-char (point-min)))))
206 (defvar thing-at-point-url-path-regexp
207 "[^]\t\n \"'()<>[^`{}]*[^]\t\n \"'()<>[^`{}.,;]+"
208 "A regular expression probably matching the host and filename or e-mail part of a URL.")
210 (defvar thing-at-point-short-url-regexp
211 (concat "[-A-Za-z0-9.]+" thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)
212 "A regular expression probably matching a URL without an access scheme.
213 Hostname matching is stricter in this case than for
214 ``thing-at-point-url-regexp''.")
216 (defvar thing-at-point-uri-schemes
217 ;; Officials from http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html
218 '("ftp://" "http://" "gopher://" "mailto:" "news:" "nntp:"
219 "telnet://" "wais://" "file:/" "prospero:" "z39.50s:" "z39.50r:"
220 "cid:" "mid:" "vemmi:" "service:" "imap:" "nfs:" "acap:" "rtsp:"
221 "tip:" "pop:" "data:" "dav:" "opaquelocktoken:" "sip:" "tel:" "fax:"
222 "modem:" "ldap:" "https://" "soap.beep:" "soap.beeps:" "urn:" "go:"
223 "afs:" "tn3270:" "mailserver:"
224 "crid:" "dict:" "dns:" "dtn:" "h323:" "im:" "info:" "ipp:"
225 "iris.beep:" "mtqp:" "mupdate:" "pres:" "sips:" "snmp:" "tag:"
226 "tftp:" "xmlrpc.beep:" "xmlrpc.beeps:" "xmpp:"
227 ;; Compatibility
228 "snews:" "irc:" "mms://" "mmsh://")
229 "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes.")
231 (defvar thing-at-point-url-regexp
232 (concat "\\<\\(" (mapconcat 'identity thing-at-point-uri-schemes "\\|") "\\)"
233 thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)
234 "A regular expression probably matching a complete URL.")
236 (defvar thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp
237 "<URL:[^>]+>"
238 "A regular expression matching a URL marked up per RFC1738.
239 This may contain whitespace (including newlines) .")
241 (put 'url 'bounds-of-thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)
242 (defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point ()
243 (let ((strip (thing-at-point-looking-at
244 thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp))) ;; (url "") short
245 (if (or strip
246 (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-url-regexp)
247 ;; Access scheme omitted?
248 ;; (setq short (thing-at-point-looking-at
249 ;; thing-at-point-short-url-regexp))
251 (let ((beginning (match-beginning 0))
252 (end (match-end 0)))
253 (when strip
254 (setq beginning (+ beginning 5))
255 (setq end (- end 1)))
256 (cons beginning end)))))
258 (put 'url 'thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-url-at-point)
259 (defun thing-at-point-url-at-point ()
260 "Return the URL around or before point.
262 Search backwards for the start of a URL ending at or after point. If
263 no URL found, return nil. The access scheme will be prepended if
264 absent: \"mailto:\" if the string contains \"@\", \"ftp://\" if it
265 starts with \"ftp\" and not \"ftp:/\", or \"http://\" by default."
267 (let ((url "") short strip)
268 (if (or (setq strip (thing-at-point-looking-at
269 thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp))
270 (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-url-regexp)
271 ;; Access scheme omitted?
272 (setq short (thing-at-point-looking-at
273 thing-at-point-short-url-regexp)))
274 (progn
275 (setq url (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning 0)
276 (match-end 0)))
277 (and strip (setq url (substring url 5 -1))) ; Drop "<URL:" & ">"
278 ;; strip whitespace
279 (while (string-match "[ \t\n\r]+" url)
280 (setq url (replace-match "" t t url)))
281 (and short (setq url (concat (cond ((string-match "^[a-zA-Z]+:" url)
282 ;; already has a URL scheme.
284 ((string-match "@" url)
285 "mailto:")
286 ;; e.g. ftp.swiss... or ftp-swiss...
287 ((string-match "^ftp" url)
288 "ftp://")
289 (t "http://"))
290 url)))
291 (if (string-equal "" url)
293 url)))))
295 ;; The normal thingatpt mechanism doesn't work for complex regexps.
296 ;; This should work for almost any regexp wherever we are in the
297 ;; match. To do a perfect job for any arbitrary regexp would mean
298 ;; testing every position before point. Regexp searches won't find
299 ;; matches that straddle the start position so we search forwards once
300 ;; and then back repeatedly and then back up a char at a time.
302 (defun thing-at-point-looking-at (regexp)
303 "Return non-nil if point is in or just after a match for REGEXP.
304 Set the match data from the earliest such match ending at or after
305 point."
306 (save-excursion
307 (let ((old-point (point)) match)
308 (and (looking-at regexp)
309 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
310 (setq match (point)))
311 ;; Search back repeatedly from end of next match.
312 ;; This may fail if next match ends before this match does.
313 (re-search-forward regexp nil 'limit)
314 (while (and (re-search-backward regexp nil t)
315 (or (> (match-beginning 0) old-point)
316 (and (looking-at regexp) ; Extend match-end past search start
317 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
318 (setq match (point))))))
319 (if (not match) nil
320 (goto-char match)
321 ;; Back up a char at a time in case search skipped
322 ;; intermediate match straddling search start pos.
323 (while (and (not (bobp))
324 (progn (backward-char 1) (looking-at regexp))
325 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
326 (setq match (point))))
327 (goto-char match)
328 (looking-at regexp)))))
330 (put 'url 'end-op
331 (lambda ()
332 (let ((bounds (thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)))
333 (if bounds
334 (goto-char (cdr bounds))
335 (error "No URL here")))))
336 (put 'url 'beginning-op
337 (lambda ()
338 (let ((bounds (thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)))
339 (if bounds
340 (goto-char (car bounds))
341 (error "No URL here")))))
343 ;; Email addresses
344 (defvar thing-at-point-email-regexp
345 "<?[-+_.~a-zA-Z][-+_.~:a-zA-Z0-9]*@[-.a-zA-Z0-9]+>?"
346 "A regular expression probably matching an email address.
347 This does not match the real name portion, only the address, optionally
348 with angle brackets.")
350 ;; Haven't set 'forward-op on 'email nor defined 'forward-email' because
351 ;; not sure they're actually needed, and URL seems to skip them too.
352 ;; Note that (end-of-thing 'email) and (beginning-of-thing 'email)
353 ;; work automagically, though.
355 (put 'email 'bounds-of-thing-at-point
356 (lambda ()
357 (let ((thing (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-email-regexp)))
358 (if thing
359 (let ((beginning (match-beginning 0))
360 (end (match-end 0)))
361 (cons beginning end))))))
363 (put 'email 'thing-at-point
364 (lambda ()
365 (let ((boundary-pair (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'email)))
366 (if boundary-pair
367 (buffer-substring-no-properties
368 (car boundary-pair) (cdr boundary-pair))))))
370 ;; Whitespace
372 (defun forward-whitespace (arg)
373 (interactive "p")
374 (if (natnump arg)
375 (re-search-forward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil 'move arg)
376 (while (< arg 0)
377 (if (re-search-backward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil 'move)
378 (or (eq (char-after (match-beginning 0)) 10)
379 (skip-chars-backward " \t")))
380 (setq arg (1+ arg)))))
382 ;; Buffer
384 (put 'buffer 'end-op (lambda () (goto-char (point-max))))
385 (put 'buffer 'beginning-op (lambda () (goto-char (point-min))))
387 ;; Symbols
389 (defun forward-symbol (arg)
390 (interactive "p")
391 (if (natnump arg)
392 (re-search-forward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil 'move arg)
393 (while (< arg 0)
394 (if (re-search-backward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil 'move)
395 (skip-syntax-backward "w_"))
396 (setq arg (1+ arg)))))
398 ;; Syntax blocks
400 (defun forward-same-syntax (&optional arg)
401 (interactive "p")
402 (while (< arg 0)
403 (skip-syntax-backward
404 (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-after (1- (point))))))
405 (setq arg (1+ arg)))
406 (while (> arg 0)
407 (skip-syntax-forward (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-after (point)))))
408 (setq arg (1- arg))))
410 ;; Aliases
412 (defun word-at-point () (thing-at-point 'word))
413 (defun sentence-at-point () (thing-at-point 'sentence))
415 (defun read-from-whole-string (str)
416 "Read a Lisp expression from STR.
417 Signal an error if the entire string was not used."
418 (let* ((read-data (read-from-string str))
419 (more-left
420 (condition-case nil
421 ;; The call to `ignore' suppresses a compiler warning.
422 (progn (ignore (read-from-string (substring str (cdr read-data))))
424 (end-of-file nil))))
425 (if more-left
426 (error "Can't read whole string")
427 (car read-data))))
429 (defun form-at-point (&optional thing pred)
430 (let ((sexp (condition-case nil
431 (read-from-whole-string (thing-at-point (or thing 'sexp)))
432 (error nil))))
433 (if (or (not pred) (funcall pred sexp)) sexp)))
435 ;;;###autoload
436 (defun sexp-at-point () (form-at-point 'sexp))
437 ;;;###autoload
438 (defun symbol-at-point ()
439 (let ((thing (thing-at-point 'symbol)))
440 (if thing (intern thing))))
441 ;;;###autoload
442 (defun number-at-point () (form-at-point 'sexp 'numberp))
443 ;;;###autoload
444 (defun list-at-point () (form-at-point 'list 'listp))
446 ;; arch-tag: bb65a163-dae2-4055-aedc-fe11f497f698
447 ;;; thingatpt.el ends here