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From: Ender <oldcode@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can I be notified whenever point of a buffer changed?
Date: 17 Apr 2007 00:39:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176795557.162257.304090@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2027.1176460480.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Apr 13, 6:25 pm, Kai Grossjohann <k...@emptydomain.de> wrote:
> Perhaps you have to go for post-command-hook (or pre-command-hook).
> The function would record the last seen value of point, look whether
> point has changed, and do its thing if so.  (Obviously, you would also
> have to update the last seen value of point.)
>
> (defvar kai-last-point nil)
> (make-variable-buffer-local 'kai-last-point)
>
> (defun kai-motion-hook ()
>   (unless (equal (point) kai-last-point)
>     (setq kai-last-point (point))
>     ... do stuff here ...))
>
> (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'kai-motion-hook)
>
> This is untested.
>
> Kai

Thank you very much, It works! And thanks for your patience to replay
newbie's question although the question is stupid sometimes :)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12  4:00 How can I be notified whenever point of a buffer changed? Ender
2007-04-12  8:09 ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] ` <mailman.1978.1176365678.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-13  2:21   ` Ender
2007-04-13 10:22     ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-04-13 10:25 ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] ` <mailman.2027.1176460480.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-17  7:39   ` Ender [this message]

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