copy paragraph

copy paragraph

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this
(global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w")
not working, could some one check it.

thank you

Re: copy paragraph

[B. T. Raven]

"Gary Wessle" <not@defined.now> wrote in message
news:874q0xb13p.fsf@localhost.localdomain...
> Hi
>
> I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this
> (global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w")
> not working, could some one check it.
>
> thank you


M-h M-w puts a copy of the paragraph surrounding point into the kill-ring.
On my keyboard this is no slower than C-cp but a standard keyboard layout
may not allow you to touch type those keychords. Still you can hold down
the Meta(Alt) key with one finger and hw with the other hand.

Ed.

Re: copy paragraph

[Lennart Borgman]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> "Gary Wessle" <not@defined.now> wrote in message
> news:874q0xb13p.fsf@localhost.localdomain...
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this
>> (global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w")
>> not working, could some one check it.
>>
>> thank you
>>     
>
>
> M-h M-w puts a copy of the paragraph surrounding point into the kill-ring.
> On my keyboard this is no slower than C-cp but a standard keyboard layout
> may not allow you to touch type those keychords. Still you can hold down
> the Meta(Alt) key with one finger and hw with the other hand.
>
> Ed.
>   
StickyModifiers can maybe help:

    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StickyModifiers

Re: copy paragraph

[Nikos Apostolakis]

Gary Wessle <not@defined.now> writes:

> Hi
>
> I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this
> (global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w")
> not working, could some one check it.
>

With "global-set-key" you can bind *commands* to a key, not key
sequences.  One way to do what you were trying to, is to record a
keyboard macro, give it a name and then to save it in your .emacs
see (info "(emacs) Save Keyboard Macro").

Or you could do something like

(global-set-key "\C-cp" 
		'(lambda () (interactive)
		   (save-excursion
		     (copy-region-as-kill 
		      (or (search-backward-regexp "^\n") (beginning-of-buffer))
		      (or (search-forward-regexp "^\n" nil t 2) (end-of-buffer))))))


assuming that your paragraphs are seperated by blank lines (not
thoroughly tested).

HTH,
Nikos

> thank you

Re: copy paragraph

[Kevin Rodgers]

Nikos Apostolakis wrote:
> Gary Wessle <not@defined.now> writes:
>>I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this
>>(global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w")
>>not working, could some one check it.
> 
> With "global-set-key" you can bind *commands* to a key, not key
> sequences.

Of course, strings of keys and vectors of input events are
commands as well.  The "Keys and Commands" node of the Emacs
manual refers to the "What is a Function" node of the Emacs
Lisp manual for the defnition of a command:

      A "command" is an object that `command-execute' can invoke; it is
      a possible definition for a key sequence.  Some functions are
      commands; a function written in Lisp is a command if it contains an
      interactive declaration (*note Defining Commands::).  Such a
      function can be called from Lisp expressions like other functions;
      in this case, the fact that the function is a command makes no
      difference.

      Keyboard macros (strings and vectors) are commands also, even
      though they are not functions.  A symbol is a command if its
      function definition is a command; such symbols can be invoked with
      `M-x'.  The symbol is a function as well if the definition is a
      function.  *Note Command Overview::.

> One way to do what you were trying to, is to record a
> keyboard macro, give it a name and then to save it in your .emacs
> see (info "(emacs) Save Keyboard Macro").
> 
> Or you could do something like
> 
> (global-set-key "\C-cp" 
> 		'(lambda () (interactive)
> 		   (save-excursion
> 		     (copy-region-as-kill 
> 		      (or (search-backward-regexp "^\n") (beginning-of-buffer))
> 		      (or (search-forward-regexp "^\n" nil t 2) (end-of-buffer))))))
> 
> 
> assuming that your paragraphs are seperated by blank lines (not
> thoroughly tested).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: copy paragraph

[Nikos Apostolakis]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Nikos Apostolakis wrote:
>> Gary Wessle <not@defined.now> writes:
>>>I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this
>>>(global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w")
>>>not working, could some one check it.
>> 
>> With "global-set-key" you can bind *commands* to a key, not key
>> sequences.
>
> Of course, strings of keys and vectors of input events are
> commands as well.  The "Keys and Commands" node of the Emacs
> manual refers to the "What is a Function" node of the Emacs
> Lisp manual for the defnition of a command:
>

I'll be ... 

I don't know where I got this idea but before your message I was
sure that one could not use a sequence of keys as the second
argument to "global-set-key".  Actually I could swear that I read it
in the manual!

Sorry for the noise.
Nikos