{"id":12794,"date":"2025-02-18T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:54:28","slug":"searching-for-the-thing-at-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12794","title":{"rendered":"Searching For The Thing At Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nJust a quick post about a short note from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/mbork.pl\/2025-02-17_isearch-forward-thing-at-point\">searching for the thing at point<\/a>. Despite using Emacs for over 18 years I didn&rsquo;t know about <code>isearch-forward-thing-at-point<\/code>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs mbork says, it does just what it says. You invoke it with <kbd>Meta<\/kbd>+<kbd>s<\/kbd> <kbd>Meta<\/kbd>+<kbd>.<\/kbd>  and it searches forward for whatever the point is on. This is something I want to do all the time and I was vaguely aware that it was possible but didn&rsquo;t know exactly how to do it, so I&rsquo;m really glad to see mbork&rsquo;s post.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinding out about this now serves to emphasize that learning Emacs really is a lifelong journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post about a short note from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) concerning searching for the thing at point. Despite using Emacs for over 18 years I didn&rsquo;t know about isearch-forward-thing-at-point. As mbork says, it does just what it says. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12794\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-12794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12795,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions\/12795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}