From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joakim Hove Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quick deleting from a comma separated list Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:08:33 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4yu13yl45a.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071750041 2085 80.91.224.253 (18 Dec 2003 12:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Urban Gabor Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 13:20:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWx8p-0000yV-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWy3Z-0001NX-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:19:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!uio.no!nntp.uib.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: skjellgran.ii.uib.no Original-X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1071749313 38376 129.177.20.52 (18 Dec 2003 12:08:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2003 12:08:33 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:beg596NlODroe4342fwbd+UCC2s= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119473 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15412 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15412 Urban Gabor writes: > The cursor point is at the 'a' of the second argument. I > want to delete the arg2 and the separating comma. What is > solution if there are spaces after or before the comma? Try this - *not* extensively tested!! Observe that it starts deleting from point - ignoring where you stand, see comment in code? (defun csv-kill () (interactive) ;; ;; Should maybe start here with searching backwards for the beginning "," ?? ;; (let ((p0 (point))) (if (search-forward "," (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)) 't) (progn (while (looking-at "[ \t]") (forward-char 1)) (kill-region p0 (point))) (message "No further comma")))) HTH - Joakim -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ / Joakim Hove / hove@bccs.no / (55 5) 84076 | \ | Unifob AS, Avdeling for Beregningsvitenskap (BCCS) | Stabburveien 18 | | CMU | 5231 Paradis | \ Thormøhlensgt.55, 5020 Bergen. | 55 91 28 18 / \--------------------------------------------------------------------/