From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with keybinding to delete between {}
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:50:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fj7dfs$frm$1@agate.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 598472b5-c766-483a-93e5-15b31bfd880f@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
lampshade
<mwolffedu@gmail.com>], who wrote in article <598472b5-c766-483a-93e5-15b31bfd880f@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> I would really like a keybinding that would allow me to delete any
> text between sexp's like {} (), etc no matter where I am between them
> and whether or not that text has spaces.
>
> For example
> {asdfdsfa asdfasdf asd}
> I would like to delete between leaving only the {} with my cursor
> inside ready to type. So far I've been trying
> (defun delete_between ()
> (interactive)
> (backward-sexp)
(up-list -1)
> (kill-sexp))
> (global-set-key [(control meta k)] 'delete_between)
>
> but that doesn't quite work. Anyone have any improvements or help
> they could give me?
In my setup, backspace kills back, delete forward; control-whatever
acts in words; meta-left/right acts in sexps, meta-up/down does
(up-list 1/-1). shift- adds some pepper (changes search-* to
replace-*, changes kill-word to kill-up-to-begin/end-of-line, changes
movement to move-and-modify-CUA-selection).
But I do not have kill-by-sexp commands. Instead, I do a shifted-move
(to select), and kill-CUA-selected. So to do what you want, I would
M-up, S-M-right, S-backspace. More keystrokes, but much more flexible
- I rarely want to delete something as simple as sexp, usually I
combine several move-and-modify-CUA-selection commands...
Probably this does not help your problem much...
Ilya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-05 1:33 Help with keybinding to delete between {} lampshade
2007-12-05 10:48 ` Bernardo Bacic
2007-12-05 12:55 ` William Xu
2007-12-05 13:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-12-05 23:50 ` Ilya Zakharevich [this message]
2007-12-06 6:33 ` Xah Lee
2007-12-06 17:14 ` Xah Lee
2007-12-12 9:20 ` lampshade
2007-12-13 3:59 ` Mike Mattie
[not found] ` <mailman.4961.1197518641.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-13 10:39 ` Xah Lee
2007-12-13 10:44 ` Mike Mattie
2007-12-13 12:46 ` Mike Mattie
2007-12-13 13:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-14 11:43 ` Xah Lee
2007-12-07 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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