From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: can a command specify overwrite selection behavior?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:33:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33ac6984-0a0c-4db8-8ea1-50ec5c271a25@x18g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
i have this code that inserts date.
(defun insert-date ()
"Insert current date."
(interactive)
(insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))
)
(put 'insert-date 'delete-selection t)
the last line is to make sure that if i have a text selection, just
overwrite it.
but it doesn't work.
i wrote to FSF about it i think last year as a bug report, i think
Richard Stallman himself turned it down.
but in my daily use, this is quite annoying.
with i think recent interest in behavior of text selection, can this
be made to work?
thanks.
Xah
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-01 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 5:33 Xah Lee [this message]
2010-09-01 8:11 ` can a command specify overwrite selection behavior? Xah Lee
2010-12-10 23:37 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1292024249.16140.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-12 15:16 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-13 17:16 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1292262212.1009.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-22 14:49 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-22 17:12 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1293037975.895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-23 2:33 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-25 0:17 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-12-25 17:00 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1293296501.5624.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-25 18:54 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-12-26 0:32 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-26 2:20 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-26 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-28 5:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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