From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch for more useful C-x } and C-x { behavior
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 15:16:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA52843.1040508@dogan.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D172094145114A2D8D85C44D1F045969@us.oracle.com>
On 2012-05-05 05:15, Drew Adams wrote:
>> "Inspired" by C-x + and C-x -, I wrote a patch which lets the user
>> repeat the { or } character to continue enlarging/shrinking
>> the selected window's width.
>
> I do that kind of thing in this generic way. The same function `repeat-command'
> can be used to define any repeater command. And the prefix arg is passed
> through as a bonus, in this case to set the increment (and direction) for the
> repetitions.
>
> (defun repeat-command (command)
> "Repeat COMMAND."
> (let ((repeat-message-function 'ignore))
> (setq last-repeatable-command command)
> (repeat nil)))
>
> (defun enlarge-window-horiz-repeat (arg)
> "..."
> (interactive "P")
> (require 'repeat)
> (repeat-command 'enlarge-window-horizontally))
>
> (defun shrink-window-horiz-repeat (arg)
> "..."
> (interactive "P")
> (require 'repeat)
> (repeat-command 'shrink-window-horizontally))
>
> (global-set-key "\C-x{" 'shrink-window-horiz-repeat)
> (global-set-key "\C-x}" 'enlarge-window-horiz-repeat)
>
> Of course, there is no `repeat-command' function in vanilla Emacs, so I end up
> redefining it in various libraries (`bmkp-repeat-command',
> `thgcmd-repeat-command', `wide-n-repeat-command'...).
>
> As an example, I use `bmkp-repeat-command' to define 30 different repeating
> commands for cycling among different types of bookmarks and bookmark sort
> orders.
>
That's great! Could we include it in Emacs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-05 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 2:25 Patch for more useful C-x } and C-x { behavior Deniz Dogan
2012-05-05 3:15 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-05 13:16 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2012-05-05 14:21 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-05 17:21 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-05-05 17:47 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-05 3:21 ` Leo
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