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Re: grep-at-point


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: grep-at-point
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:56:37 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:

> Before writing one, is there an elisp function
> that returns a buffer of links to file locations
> where the elisp symbol at point is used? 
>
> I'm only concerned with the files in the current directory.
> Am currently using M-x grep.   Maybe all I really need
> is a grep-at-point function, which greps for the symbol at point.

Sounds like what you might actually be after is some sort of project
management package. I use projectile, with helm, and that provides all
kinds of commands like grep in project, multi-occur in project, etc,
that make it pretty easy to find what you're looking for.

Eric




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