Re: insert text after a char depending on next char

[james <james.kingston@gmail.com>]

On Apr 20, 1:55 pm, weber <hug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 abr, 15:05, james <james.kings...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 20, 9:17 am, Sebastian Meisel <sebastianmei...@web.de> wrote:
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> > > Hallo,
>
> > > is the following possible in emacs, and if it is how can it be done:
>
> > > I want emacs  to insert  "\," after a dot ("."), when no space is following:
>
> > > I type: "Hallo World. Hallo World." -> emacs shall not insert anything,
> > > because a space is following.
> > > I type: "Hallo World.Hallo World." -> emacs shall insert "\," after the
> > > dot resulting in: "Hallo World.\,Hallo World.".
>
> > > Thanks for any hints.
>
> > > Sebastian Meisel
>
> > Something like this:
>
> > (defun qwerty()
> >   (interactive)
> >   (cond ((looking-at " ") (insert "."))
> >         (t (insert ".\\,"))))
>
> > (local-set-key (kbd ".") 'qwerty)
>
> > Seems like the sort of thing you'd want to add more conditions to
>
> At first I thought about something like that too, but you got to
> realize that when he types the '.' he still has not completed the rest
> of the sentence...
> So it seems that the correct would be: after any keypress, look back:
> if there is ". " then nothing, is there is ".H" then insert \, after
> the dot...
>
> Cheers,
> weber

(defun qwerty()
  (interactive)
  (insert ".")
  (let ((c (read-event)))
    (cond
     ((eq 32 c) (insert " "))
     (t (insert (concat "\\," (make-string 1 c)))))))