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Similar to ‘forward-sexp’ but, when called from inside a comment or string, match only inside. Likewise, when called from outside a comment or string, ignore comments or strings for a match.
Delivers a set of functions to return, mover over or manipulate a given THING.
See USAGE for details
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To see what's implemented, consult contents of
variables at the end of thingatpt-utils-core.el as
ar-atpt-delimlist', ar-atpt-delimited-list', etc.
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The idea comes from Mike Williams, author of shipped thingatpt.el
You might be interested also to visit Drew Adam's http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/thingatpt+.el which predates this approach and was helpful writing it.
In case of trouble or feature requests, please file a bug report.