> From: Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> > Cc: emacs-de...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:56:05 +0000 > > Jim Porter <jporterb...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On 2/5/2024 7:07 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > >> 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. > > > > That sounds reasonable enough to me; does anyone else have opinions on > > this? Otherwise, I'll get to work on a patch (though probably not for a > > couple weeks). > > CCing Stefan and Eli. > Please, let us know if the above is something not wanted upstream.
I think we do want to allow extending of this, but doesn't thingatpt.el already provide such capabilities? For example, I see this in bounds-of-thing-at-point: (defun bounds-of-thing-at-point (thing) "Determine the start and end buffer locations for the THING at point. THING should be a symbol specifying a type of syntactic entity. Possibilities include `symbol', `list', `sexp', `defun', `number', `filename', `url', `email', `uuid', `word', `sentence', `whitespace', `line', and `page'. See the file `thingatpt.el' for documentation on how to define a valid THING. Return a cons cell (START . END) giving the start and end positions of the thing found." (cond ((get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< (funcall (get thing 'bounds-of-thing-at-point))) Doesn't this provide the extension capabilities you are looking for? If not, why not?