Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
Hmm, what if cursor is inside a string or comment?
The list will be returned anyway as thingatpt always does.
AFAICT, skipping lists inside comments/strings would be a new feature
for this lib: better request that in a separated bug report.
BTW "list" might be more universal if understood syntactically
What about writing
(eq 4 (car (syntax-after (point))))
Agreed. Thank you!
Here is the new patch:
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From 71da9ad4f6bbc307c5fb3f8bd0c6621312b2d4f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:49:32 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] (thing-at-point 'list) return nil if no list at point
* lisp/thingatpt.el (thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point):
Check first if we are at the beginning of a top-level sexp (Bug#24627).
Escape '[' in doc string.
---
lisp/thingatpt.el | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el
index 6d1014b..421dcde 100644
--- a/lisp/thingatpt.el
+++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el
@@ -219,22 +219,18 @@ 'beginning-of-sexp
(defun thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point ()
"Return the bounds of the list at point.
-[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.]"
+\[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.]"
(save-excursion
(let ((opoint (point))
- (beg (ignore-errors
- (up-list -1)
- (point))))
+ (beg (if (eq 4 (car (syntax-after (point))))
+ (point)
+ (ignore-errors
+ (up-list -1)
+ (point)))))
(ignore-errors
- (if beg
- (progn (forward-sexp)
- (cons beg (point)))
- ;; Are we are at the beginning of a top-level sexp?
- (forward-sexp)
- (let ((end (point)))
- (backward-sexp)
- (if (>= opoint (point))
- (cons opoint end))))))))
+ (when beg
+ (forward-sexp)
+ (cons beg (point)))))))
;; Defuns