From: Chat <chatter70.xspam@xspam.sbcglobal.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Move selection up, down
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:43:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uabf8zkuz.fsf@ganesha.sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 67d8af01-dce7-42e3-9a00-c4c5f3565469@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com
harven <harven@free.fr> writes:
> On Aug 19, 4:21 pm, "jiri.pejc...@gmail.com" <jiri.pejc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in Netbeans when you press M-S-up/M-S-down you move the selected text
>> up/down. When nothing is selected it moves the current line.
>>
>> With C-S-up/C-S-down you copy the selection up/down. When nothings is
>> selected it copies the current line up/down.
>>
>> Is such functionality available in emacs?
>>
>> Jiri Pejchal
>
> There are similar functionalities in emacs,
> although the bindings are different. For example, the command that
> transposes two
> consecutive lines is called transpose-lines and is bound to C-x C-t by
> default. Other transpose commands include transpose-region, transpose-
> char, transpose-paragraphs, transpose-words, transpose-sentences.
>
> You can also redefine such functionalities
> by hand using a bit of lisp code. For example,
> if I want to exchange two consecutive lines, I can define the
> following command:
>
> (defun line-down ()
> (interactive)
> (save-excursion
> (beginning-of-line)
> (kill-line 1)
> (next-line)
> (yank))
> (next-line))
>
> and bind it to C-S-down:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-S-<down>") 'line-down)
>
> This may convince you that new functionalities
> are easily added to emacs.
For simple things like this, reading the secion "emacs" -> "keyboard macros" in
M-x info also helps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 14:21 Move selection up, down jiri.pejchal
2008-08-19 21:27 ` harven
2008-08-19 22:43 ` Chat [this message]
2008-08-20 0:45 ` Andreas Politz
2008-09-11 17:04 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-07-04 12:15 ` teemu.leisti
2014-12-12 19:14 ` jsglazer
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