From: Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: alt to copy-region-as-kill for kill ring
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 11:35:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9a3p7xu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtvfuwnl.fsf@zoho.eu> (Emanuel Berg via Users list for the's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2021 10:43:10 +0100")
Hello Emanuel,
|| > On Sunday, 7 Mar 2021 at 10:43, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
|| >> Jeremie Juste wrote:
Many thanks for your suggestions. My coding style needs improvement and
I will use checkdoc-defun from now on. You are right about the RE as well.
The function has greatly improved,
(require 'avy) # available on MELPA
(defun boomrang (query-char)
"Kill word and come back to point.
Argument QUERY-CHAR The first character of the word to be copied."
(interactive "cchar: Query Char:")
(save-window-excursion
(avy-goto-word-1 query-char)
(copy-region-as-kill (point) (when (re-search-forward "[[:alnum:]_-]+" (point-max) t) (point))))
(yank))
> OK, it should be required, then (require 'avy) - hm...
avy has indeed many tools for copying lines and regions, which I happily
use, but I didn't any suggestions for words.
>> There are a few limitations to it: - if the word is in
>> a different buffer it yank it but the cursor does
>
> `save-window-excursion'?
It did solve this problem thanks.
>> - If we bind the function to a key (say C-'), it is rather
>> difficult to control the copy-region-as-kill as when used
>> with this function it behaves like C-M-w (see function
>> kill-ring-save).
When I use boomrang just after I killed something, I get the same behavior
as one would use C-M-w (append-next-kill &optional INTERACTIVE). I was
look for a way to bypass this append-next-kill
Best regards,
Jeremie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-07 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-07 8:57 alt to copy-region-as-kill for kill ring Jeremie Juste
2021-03-07 9:43 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-07 10:35 ` Jeremie Juste [this message]
2021-03-07 14:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-07 17:11 ` Jeremie Juste
2021-03-07 18:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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