From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "collger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keybindings for () and kill-region Date: 24 Feb 2007 06:36:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172327799.831257.170920@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1171859288.645586.231760@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172328037 14239 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2007 14:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 24 15:40:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKy4c-0006lq-6v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKy4b-0007FI-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.137.162.152 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172327806 24015 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2007 14:36:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:36:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1171859288.645586.231760@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=219.137.162.152; posting-account=ZGlxyg0AAABjo13ycN5zqf3lhgWzPOHn Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145840 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41444 Archived-At: On Feb 19, 12:28 pm, "Noah Tye" wrote: > I've rebound C-w to backward-kill-word. What's a good replacement > binding for kill-region? (I've tried C-c C-k, but that's used by the > Python major mode.) > > Also, I'd like to bind C-J and C-K to '(' and ')'. Is there a way to > do this? > > Thanks in advance. In fact. You don't need to rebind the key sequence. Because c-w is a no-op when region selection is not activated. so.. we can... (defun backward-delete-word-if-not-in-region () "hooker, backward-kill-word when nothing in selection" (interactive) (if (equal mark-active nil) (backward-kill-word 1) (kill-region (point) (mark-marker)))) (global-set-key "\C-w" 'backward-delete-word-if-not-in-region)