GNU bug report logs - #54086
Occur should offer more interactive input options

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From: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Occur should offer more interactive input options
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:36:02 +0000

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In my experience it is often that I search for something under the cursor, so it
makes sense for occur to pick up the word at point and offer that for search.

Also, if a region is selected occur could offer this as input.

I did these for myself long ago and it's a pretty useful hack which could improve
built in occur too.

So something like this for initial input :

(if (use-region-p)
(buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))
(thing-at-point 'symbol))))))

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