Re: Adding custom providers for thingatpt.el (was: [PATCH] Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

>> Looking into the source code of `bounds-of-thing-at-point', I see that
>> for standard "things" (like url),
>> `thing-at-point-bounds-of-url-at-point' is used unconditionally. In the
>> case of Org links, we may have something like [<point>[https://orgmode.org]]
>> that will not match default URL regexp as is. AFAIU, there is no
>> documented way to customize the behaviour of `bounds-of-thing-at-point'
>> and `forward-thing'.
>
> I think it would make sense to add some sort of 
> 'bounds-of-thing-at-point-provider-alist' (that's a mouthful!) that 
> would let modes override the behavior of 'botap', but I don't think 
> that's necessary for the narrower purpose of asking, "I want the value 
> of THING at point, if any."

It would make sense to add a number of alists:
- bounds-of-thing-at-point-provider-alist
- same for 'forward-op, 'beginning-op, 'end-op.

After Emacs have those, we can add Org mode support.

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