From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TheLonelyStar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Custom backspace delete in mini-buffer Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <18881785.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218150923 8343 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 23:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:15:23 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 01:16:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KREiM-0008JS-BM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:16:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KREhQ-00043f-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KREh8-00041c-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KREh6-0003yt-QX for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32786 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KREh6-0003yf-MN for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:48132) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KREh5-0008C4-IB for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KREh1-0002hN-Bt for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:14:51 -0700 X-Nabble-From: nabble@lonely-star.org X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56264 Archived-At: Hi, I have defined a custom backspace delete function: (defun delete-with-closing-bracket-back (arg) (interactive "*p") ;;Check if point is not the minimum (if (not (= (point) (point-min))) (progn (backward-char) (if (looking-at "\\({[\n \t]*}\\|\\[[\n \t]*\\]\\|\([\n \t]*\)\\|\"[\n \t]*\"\\)") (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)) ;;else (forward-char) (c-hungry-delete-backwards) )) ;;else (delete-backward-char 1) )) (define-key global-map [(backspace)] 'delete-with-closing-bracket-back) It works fine, but there is a problem. When I am in i-search mode, pressing backspace deletes the last character in the window, not in the i-search mini-buffer. I do not know much about elisp. The function above I just "stole" together. What can I do? Thanks! Nathan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Custom-backspace-delete-in-mini-buffer-tp18881785p18881785.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.