From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (insert ...) won't respect delete-selection-mode
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:48:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d63cae07-ff23-4126-8aef-09ef8397eb28@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1223460628.620979@arno.fh-trier.de
On Oct 8, 3:04 am, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Xahwrote:
> > On Oct 7, 2:08 pm, Chetan <Chetan.xs...@xspam.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> writes:
> >>>> i have a some 20 personal commands that insert some text. However, i
> >>>> have delete-selection-mode on, meaning that when a region is active,
> >>>> any typing should delete/override it.
> >>>> But when calling my insert text commands it will just insert at the
> >>>> end of region. Here's a example:
> >>>> (defun insert-date () "Insert current date." (interactive)
> >>>> (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")))
> >>>> Do i need to modify each commands to check on mark-active and delete-
> >>>> selection-mode then call delete region first? Or, is there some
> >>>> variable i can just set?
> >>> See the Commentary at the beginning of `delsel.el':
> >>> ;; Commands that delete the selection need a `delete-selection'
> >>> ;; property on their symbols. Commands that insert text but do not
> >>> ;; have this property do not delete the selection. The property can
> >>> ;; be one of these values:
> >>> ;; 'yank
> >>> ;; For commands which do a yank; ensures the region about to be
> >>> ;; deleted isn't yanked.
> >>> ;; 'supersede
> >>> ;; Delete the active region and ignore the current command,
> >>> ;; i.e. the command will just delete the region.
> >>> ;; 'kill
> >>> ;; `kill-region' is used on the selection, rather than
> >>> ;; `delete-region'. (Text selected with the mouse will typically
> >>> ;; be yankable anyhow.)
> >>> ;; non-nil
> >>> ;; The normal case: delete the active region prior to executing
> >>> ;; the command which will insert replacement text.
> >>> Example:
> >>> (put 'insert-date 'delete-selection t)
> >> The command also needs to be activated with keyboard. M-x does not
> >> do it.
>
> > Thank you both.
>
> > Why does it needs to be called from keyboard? Unfortunately most of my
> > commands are used by calling a short alias.
>
> > Xah
> > ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> > ☄
>
> Because it't a different command.
>
> (put 'execute-extended-command 'delete-selection t)
LOL. When i tried this, it'll just delete the region when you do M-x,
regardless what command you gonna call.
for a moment i was gonna say Thanks! Great solution!
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 19:11 (insert ...) won't respect delete-selection-mode Xah
2008-10-07 19:57 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.495.1223409434.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-07 21:08 ` Chetan
2008-10-08 7:20 ` Xah
2008-10-08 10:04 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-08 16:48 ` Xah [this message]
2008-10-08 21:09 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-08 21:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.621.1223502455.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:27 ` Xah
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=d63cae07-ff23-4126-8aef-09ef8397eb28@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com \
--to=xahlee@gmail.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).