From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble with cursor palcement when using registers. Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:22:58 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E0C8C72.7040604@ihs.com> References: <340bc066.0212270900.3f972de2@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041009965 28538 80.91.224.249 (27 Dec 2002 17:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18RyFH-0007Q4-00 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:26:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18RyEb-0001V7-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:25:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1041009765 7761919 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108514 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5043 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5043 Lars Gustafsson wrote: > I used registers to construct a paste-function. The problem is that > the cursor is always positioned before the text, which I just pasted > in. When you use the yank-function the cursor is always placed after > the text, which was just pasted in. How do I get the cursor after the > text, which was just pasted in automatically. Here is how the > paste-function is implemented: > > (global-unset-key [(control v)]) > (global-set-key [(control v)] 'paste-and-show) ; PASTE-KEY. > (defun paste-and-show () (interactive) "Paste from register a" > (progn > (message "Region from register a pasted in") > (if (eq mark-active (not nil)) ; if-part > (progn ; then-part > (message "The mark was active") > (transient-mark-mode 1) > (kill-region (region-beginning) (region-end)) > (transient-mark-mode 0) > ) > ) > (insert-register ?a) > (setq mark-active nil) C-h f insert-register (insert-register ?a t) -- Kevin Rodgers