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From: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hungry-delete in other modes
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:58:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86aahm9dnj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5az1qfj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:48:28 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> For DEL at least, you can
>
>   (global-set-key [?\^?] 'backward-delete-char-untabify)
>
> and even control it via buffer-local settings of
> backward-delete-char-untabify-method.

I didnt know about backward-delete-char-untabify-method. I will have a
look at that.

> Because the CC-mode author wanted to provide the feature to all CC-mode
> users and/or did not make the effort to try and submit this feature for
> separate inclusion in Emacs.

So no technical or historical reason.

> Of course it's possible.  As a matter of fact we do have subword-mode,
> as well as electric-layout-mode.

It looks like subword-mode was created from cc-subword.el.It looks like
the hungry delete functions are pretty self contained and could be
factored out into a separate mode pretty easily. Maybe something to look
into for a future project.

Thanks,
Christoph



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-23  1:21 hungry-delete in other modes Christoph
2011-02-23  1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-23  2:23   ` Nathaniel Flath
2011-02-24  6:00     ` Christoph
2011-02-24  5:58   ` Christoph [this message]

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