Function: bounds-of-thing-at-mouse

bounds-of-thing-at-mouse is an autoloaded and byte-compiled function defined in thingatpt.el.gz.

Signature

(bounds-of-thing-at-mouse EVENT THING)

Documentation

Determine start and end locations for THING at mouse click given by EVENT.

Like bounds-of-thing-at-point, but tries to use the position in EVENT where the mouse button is clicked to find the thing nearby.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/thingatpt.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun bounds-of-thing-at-mouse (event thing)
  "Determine start and end locations for THING at mouse click given by EVENT.
Like `bounds-of-thing-at-point', but tries to use the position in EVENT
where the mouse button is clicked to find the thing nearby."
  (save-excursion
    (mouse-set-point event)
    (bounds-of-thing-at-point thing)))