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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, 2009
5 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
7 ;; Author: Mike Williams <mikew@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
8 ;; Maintainer: FSF
9 ;; Keywords: extensions, matching, mouse
10 ;; Created: Thu Mar 28 13:48:23 1991
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27 ;;; Commentary:
29 ;; This file provides routines for getting the "thing" at the location of
30 ;; point, whatever that "thing" happens to be. The "thing" is defined by
31 ;; its beginning and end positions in the buffer.
33 ;; The function bounds-of-thing-at-point finds the beginning and end
34 ;; positions by moving first forward to the end of the "thing", and then
35 ;; backwards to the beginning. By default, it uses the corresponding
36 ;; forward-"thing" operator (eg. forward-word, forward-line).
38 ;; Special cases are allowed for using properties associated with the named
39 ;; "thing":
41 ;; forward-op Function to call to skip forward over a "thing" (or
42 ;; with a negative argument, backward).
44 ;; beginning-op Function to call to skip to the beginning of a "thing".
45 ;; end-op Function to call to skip to the end of a "thing".
47 ;; Reliance on existing operators means that many `things' can be accessed
48 ;; without further code: eg.
49 ;; (thing-at-point 'line)
50 ;; (thing-at-point 'page)
52 ;;; Code:
54 (provide 'thingatpt)
56 ;; Basic movement
58 ;;;###autoload
59 (defun forward-thing (thing &optional n)
60 "Move forward to the end of the Nth next THING."
61 (let ((forward-op (or (get thing 'forward-op)
62 (intern-soft (format "forward-%s" thing)))))
63 (if (functionp forward-op)
64 (funcall forward-op (or n 1))
65 (error "Can't determine how to move over a %s" thing))))
67 ;; General routines
69 ;;;###autoload
70 (defun bounds-of-thing-at-point (thing)
71 "Determine the start and end buffer locations for the THING at point.
72 THING is a symbol which specifies the kind of syntactic entity you want.
73 Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `filename', `url',
74 `email', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', `page' and others.
76 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
77 a symbol as a valid THING.
79 The value is a cons cell (START . END) giving the start and end positions
80 of the textual entity that was found."
81 (if (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point)
82 (funcall (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point))
83 (let ((orig (point)))
84 (condition-case nil
85 (save-excursion
86 ;; Try moving forward, then back.
87 (funcall ;; First move to end.
88 (or (get thing 'end-op)
89 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
90 (funcall ;; Then move to beg.
91 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
92 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
93 (let ((beg (point)))
94 (if (not (and beg (> beg orig)))
95 ;; If that brings us all the way back to ORIG,
96 ;; it worked. But END may not be the real end.
97 ;; So find the real end that corresponds to BEG.
98 (let ((real-end
99 (progn
100 (funcall
101 (or (get thing 'end-op)
102 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
103 (point))))
104 (if (and beg real-end (<= beg orig) (<= orig real-end))
105 (cons beg real-end)))
106 (goto-char orig)
107 ;; Try a second time, moving backward first and then forward,
108 ;; so that we can find a thing that ends at ORIG.
109 (funcall ;; First, move to beg.
110 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
111 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
112 (funcall ;; Then move to end.
113 (or (get thing 'end-op)
114 (lambda () (forward-thing thing 1))))
115 (let ((end (point))
116 (real-beg
117 (progn
118 (funcall
119 (or (get thing 'beginning-op)
120 (lambda () (forward-thing thing -1))))
121 (point))))
122 (if (and real-beg end (<= real-beg orig) (<= orig end))
123 (cons real-beg end))))))
124 (error nil)))))
126 ;;;###autoload
127 (defun thing-at-point (thing)
128 "Return the THING at point.
129 THING is a symbol which specifies the kind of syntactic entity you want.
130 Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `filename', `url',
131 `email', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', `page' and others.
133 See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define
134 a symbol as a valid THING."
135 (if (get thing 'thing-at-point)
136 (funcall (get thing 'thing-at-point))
137 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
138 (if bounds
139 (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds))))))
141 ;; Go to beginning/end
143 (defun beginning-of-thing (thing)
144 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
145 (or bounds (error "No %s here" thing))
146 (goto-char (car bounds))))
148 (defun end-of-thing (thing)
149 (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))
150 (or bounds (error "No %s here" thing))
151 (goto-char (cdr bounds))))
153 ;; Special cases
155 ;; Lines
157 ;; bolp will be false when you click on the last line in the buffer
158 ;; and it has no final newline.
160 (put 'line 'beginning-op
161 (lambda () (if (bolp) (forward-line -1) (beginning-of-line))))
163 ;; Sexps
165 (defun in-string-p ()
166 (let ((orig (point)))
167 (save-excursion
168 (beginning-of-defun)
169 (nth 3 (parse-partial-sexp (point) orig)))))
171 (defun end-of-sexp ()
172 (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-after))))
173 (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\))
174 (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
175 (forward-char 1)
176 (forward-sexp 1))))
178 (put 'sexp 'end-op 'end-of-sexp)
180 (defun beginning-of-sexp ()
181 (let ((char-syntax (char-syntax (char-before))))
182 (if (or (eq char-syntax ?\()
183 (and (eq char-syntax ?\") (in-string-p)))
184 (forward-char -1)
185 (forward-sexp -1))))
187 (put 'sexp 'beginning-op 'beginning-of-sexp)
189 ;; Lists
191 (put 'list 'bounds-of-thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point)
193 (defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point ()
194 (save-excursion
195 (let ((opoint (point))
196 (beg (condition-case nil
197 (progn (up-list -1)
198 (point))
199 (error nil))))
200 (condition-case nil
201 (if beg
202 (progn (forward-sexp)
203 (cons beg (point)))
204 ;; Are we are at the beginning of a top-level sexp?
205 (forward-sexp)
206 (let ((end (point)))
207 (backward-sexp)
208 (if (>= opoint (point))
209 (cons opoint end))))
210 (error nil)))))
212 ;; Filenames and URLs www.com/foo%32bar
214 (defvar thing-at-point-file-name-chars "-~/[:alnum:]_.${}#%,:"
215 "Characters allowable in filenames.")
217 (put 'filename 'end-op
218 (lambda ()
219 (re-search-forward (concat "\\=[" thing-at-point-file-name-chars "]*")
220 nil t)))
221 (put 'filename 'beginning-op
222 (lambda ()
223 (if (re-search-backward (concat "[^" thing-at-point-file-name-chars "]")
224 nil t)
225 (forward-char)
226 (goto-char (point-min)))))
228 (defvar thing-at-point-url-path-regexp
229 "[^]\t\n \"'<>[^`{}]*[^]\t\n \"'<>[^`{}.,;]+"
230 "A regular expression probably matching the host and filename or e-mail part of a URL.")
232 (defvar thing-at-point-short-url-regexp
233 (concat "[-A-Za-z0-9.]+" thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)
234 "A regular expression probably matching a URL without an access scheme.
235 Hostname matching is stricter in this case than for
236 ``thing-at-point-url-regexp''.")
238 (defvar thing-at-point-uri-schemes
239 ;; Officials from http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html
240 '("ftp://" "http://" "gopher://" "mailto:" "news:" "nntp:"
241 "telnet://" "wais://" "file:/" "prospero:" "z39.50s:" "z39.50r:"
242 "cid:" "mid:" "vemmi:" "service:" "imap:" "nfs:" "acap:" "rtsp:"
243 "tip:" "pop:" "data:" "dav:" "opaquelocktoken:" "sip:" "tel:" "fax:"
244 "modem:" "ldap:" "https://" "soap.beep:" "soap.beeps:" "urn:" "go:"
245 "afs:" "tn3270:" "mailserver:"
246 "crid:" "dict:" "dns:" "dtn:" "h323:" "im:" "info:" "ipp:"
247 "iris.beep:" "mtqp:" "mupdate:" "pres:" "sips:" "snmp:" "tag:"
248 "tftp:" "xmlrpc.beep:" "xmlrpc.beeps:" "xmpp:"
249 ;; Compatibility
250 "snews:" "irc:" "mms://" "mmsh://")
251 "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes.")
253 (defvar thing-at-point-url-regexp
254 (concat "\\<\\(" (mapconcat 'identity thing-at-point-uri-schemes "\\|") "\\)"
255 thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)
256 "A regular expression probably matching a complete URL.")
258 (defvar thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp
259 "<URL:[^>]+>"
260 "A regular expression matching a URL marked up per RFC1738.
261 This may contain whitespace (including newlines) .")
263 (put 'url 'bounds-of-thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)
264 (defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point ()
265 (let ((strip (thing-at-point-looking-at
266 thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp))) ;; (url "") short
267 (if (or strip
268 (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-url-regexp)
269 ;; Access scheme omitted?
270 ;; (setq short (thing-at-point-looking-at
271 ;; thing-at-point-short-url-regexp))
273 (let ((beginning (match-beginning 0))
274 (end (match-end 0)))
275 (when strip
276 (setq beginning (+ beginning 5))
277 (setq end (- end 1)))
278 (cons beginning end)))))
280 (put 'url 'thing-at-point 'thing-at-point-url-at-point)
281 (defun thing-at-point-url-at-point ()
282 "Return the URL around or before point.
284 Search backwards for the start of a URL ending at or after point. If
285 no URL found, return nil. The access scheme will be prepended if
286 absent: \"mailto:\" if the string contains \"@\", \"ftp://\" if it
287 starts with \"ftp\" and not \"ftp:/\", or \"http://\" by default."
289 (let ((url "") short strip)
290 (if (or (setq strip (thing-at-point-looking-at
291 thing-at-point-markedup-url-regexp))
292 (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-url-regexp)
293 ;; Access scheme omitted?
294 (setq short (thing-at-point-looking-at
295 thing-at-point-short-url-regexp)))
296 (progn
297 (setq url (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning 0)
298 (match-end 0)))
299 (and strip (setq url (substring url 5 -1))) ; Drop "<URL:" & ">"
300 ;; strip whitespace
301 (while (string-match "[ \t\n\r]+" url)
302 (setq url (replace-match "" t t url)))
303 (and short (setq url (concat (cond ((string-match "^[a-zA-Z]+:" url)
304 ;; already has a URL scheme.
306 ((string-match "@" url)
307 "mailto:")
308 ;; e.g. ftp.swiss... or ftp-swiss...
309 ((string-match "^ftp" url)
310 "ftp://")
311 (t "http://"))
312 url)))
313 (if (string-equal "" url)
315 url)))))
317 ;; The normal thingatpt mechanism doesn't work for complex regexps.
318 ;; This should work for almost any regexp wherever we are in the
319 ;; match. To do a perfect job for any arbitrary regexp would mean
320 ;; testing every position before point. Regexp searches won't find
321 ;; matches that straddle the start position so we search forwards once
322 ;; and then back repeatedly and then back up a char at a time.
324 (defun thing-at-point-looking-at (regexp)
325 "Return non-nil if point is in or just after a match for REGEXP.
326 Set the match data from the earliest such match ending at or after
327 point."
328 (save-excursion
329 (let ((old-point (point)) match)
330 (and (looking-at regexp)
331 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
332 (setq match (point)))
333 ;; Search back repeatedly from end of next match.
334 ;; This may fail if next match ends before this match does.
335 (re-search-forward regexp nil 'limit)
336 (while (and (re-search-backward regexp nil t)
337 (or (> (match-beginning 0) old-point)
338 (and (looking-at regexp) ; Extend match-end past search start
339 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
340 (setq match (point))))))
341 (if (not match) nil
342 (goto-char match)
343 ;; Back up a char at a time in case search skipped
344 ;; intermediate match straddling search start pos.
345 (while (and (not (bobp))
346 (progn (backward-char 1) (looking-at regexp))
347 (>= (match-end 0) old-point)
348 (setq match (point))))
349 (goto-char match)
350 (looking-at regexp)))))
352 (put 'url 'end-op
353 (lambda ()
354 (let ((bounds (thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)))
355 (if bounds
356 (goto-char (cdr bounds))
357 (error "No URL here")))))
358 (put 'url 'beginning-op
359 (lambda ()
360 (let ((bounds (thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point)))
361 (if bounds
362 (goto-char (car bounds))
363 (error "No URL here")))))
365 ;; Email addresses
366 (defvar thing-at-point-email-regexp
367 "<?[-+_.~a-zA-Z][-+_.~:a-zA-Z0-9]*@[-.a-zA-Z0-9]+>?"
368 "A regular expression probably matching an email address.
369 This does not match the real name portion, only the address, optionally
370 with angle brackets.")
372 ;; Haven't set 'forward-op on 'email nor defined 'forward-email' because
373 ;; not sure they're actually needed, and URL seems to skip them too.
374 ;; Note that (end-of-thing 'email) and (beginning-of-thing 'email)
375 ;; work automagically, though.
377 (put 'email 'bounds-of-thing-at-point
378 (lambda ()
379 (let ((thing (thing-at-point-looking-at thing-at-point-email-regexp)))
380 (if thing
381 (let ((beginning (match-beginning 0))
382 (end (match-end 0)))
383 (cons beginning end))))))
385 (put 'email 'thing-at-point
386 (lambda ()
387 (let ((boundary-pair (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'email)))
388 (if boundary-pair
389 (buffer-substring-no-properties
390 (car boundary-pair) (cdr boundary-pair))))))
392 ;; Whitespace
394 (defun forward-whitespace (arg)
395 (interactive "p")
396 (if (natnump arg)
397 (re-search-forward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil 'move arg)
398 (while (< arg 0)
399 (if (re-search-backward "[ \t]+\\|\n" nil 'move)
400 (or (eq (char-after (match-beginning 0)) 10)
401 (skip-chars-backward " \t")))
402 (setq arg (1+ arg)))))
404 ;; Buffer
406 (put 'buffer 'end-op (lambda () (goto-char (point-max))))
407 (put 'buffer 'beginning-op (lambda () (goto-char (point-min))))
409 ;; Symbols
411 (defun forward-symbol (arg)
412 (interactive "p")
413 (if (natnump arg)
414 (re-search-forward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil 'move arg)
415 (while (< arg 0)
416 (if (re-search-backward "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+" nil 'move)
417 (skip-syntax-backward "w_"))
418 (setq arg (1+ arg)))))
420 ;; Syntax blocks
422 (defun forward-same-syntax (&optional arg)
423 (interactive "p")
424 (while (< arg 0)
425 (skip-syntax-backward
426 (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-before))))
427 (setq arg (1+ arg)))
428 (while (> arg 0)
429 (skip-syntax-forward (char-to-string (char-syntax (char-after))))
430 (setq arg (1- arg))))
432 ;; Aliases
434 (defun word-at-point () (thing-at-point 'word))
435 (defun sentence-at-point () (thing-at-point 'sentence))
437 (defun read-from-whole-string (str)
438 "Read a Lisp expression from STR.
439 Signal an error if the entire string was not used."
440 (let* ((read-data (read-from-string str))
441 (more-left
442 (condition-case nil
443 ;; The call to `ignore' suppresses a compiler warning.
444 (progn (ignore (read-from-string (substring str (cdr read-data))))
446 (end-of-file nil))))
447 (if more-left
448 (error "Can't read whole string")
449 (car read-data))))
451 (defun form-at-point (&optional thing pred)
452 (let ((sexp (condition-case nil
453 (read-from-whole-string (thing-at-point (or thing 'sexp)))
454 (error nil))))
455 (if (or (not pred) (funcall pred sexp)) sexp)))
457 ;;;###autoload
458 (defun sexp-at-point ()
459 "Return the sexp at point, or nil if none is found."
460 (form-at-point 'sexp))
461 ;;;###autoload
462 (defun symbol-at-point ()
463 "Return the symbol at point, or nil if none is found."
464 (let ((thing (thing-at-point 'symbol)))
465 (if thing (intern thing))))
466 ;;;###autoload
467 (defun number-at-point ()
468 "Return the number at point, or nil if none is found."
469 (form-at-point 'sexp 'numberp))
470 ;;;###autoload
471 (defun list-at-point ()
472 "Return the Lisp list at point, or nil if none is found."
473 (form-at-point 'list 'listp))
475 ;; arch-tag: bb65a163-dae2-4055-aedc-fe11f497f698
476 ;;; thingatpt.el ends here