GNU bug report logs - #10916
Using occur to list occurrencies of the symbol at point

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 10916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Niels Möller <nisse <at> lysator.liu.se>
Subject: bug#10916: Using occur to list occurrencies of the symbol at point
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:58:41 +0200

>>>> Have you tried `M-x occur RET M-n RET'?
>>>
>>> Now I have. Seems to give the symbol at point in recent emacs versions.
>>> Slightly less convenient than a prefix argument, but I think that does
>>> what I want.
>>
>> It's less convenient because the default value (displayed in parens)
>> for `occur' is not the symbol under point, but the last history element
>> (that is also easy to get via `M-p').  This is for historical reasons.
>
> If this is how the command has worked for a long time, perhaps it's
> too late to change now?  In that case, I guess this is a wontfix?

Agreed.

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