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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 10916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Niels Möller <nisse <at> lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: bug#10916: Using occur to list occurrencies of the symbol at point
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:04:36 +0100

tags 10916 + wontfix
close 10916
thanks

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

>>>>> 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.

No further comments within 3 weeks, so I'm now closing this bug as
wontfix.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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