Confused about `-thing` versions of replacement functions about anzu HOT 4 CLOSED

Yes, thank you. I'll take a look at wordsmithing the documentation a bit and PR it.

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Sorry very late reply.

at-cursor

at-cursor uses input which is a symbol at cursor. And replace words with it to end of buffer.

at-cursor-thing

while at-cursor-thing replaces only within thing(default is defun. You can change this value). Emacs has thing concept, thing is word, symbol, line, defun etc. We can get thing content, range or etc.

Above example replace only within function. This is useful for simple renaming refactoring. (NOTE: It looks only string match and is not smart. I recommend you to use smart refactoring tool rather than this)

My English is very poor, if you can write good English document, please write patch.

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Thank you @syohex, makes perfect sense.

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Took a stab at improving this. With the hint that @syohex provided I now understand what's going on.

The biggest stumbling block that I had is that anzu-replace-at-cursor-thing is the name of a function and a customization variable.

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