From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Xah Lee'" <xahlee@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: can a command specify overwrite selection behavior?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:37:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63864A0A1F144208AF1A9B565EDE3A1B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05a87fbb-31a7-40c3-a890-6c7aacaefac3@t5g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
> > 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.
Actually, it does work, Xah.
If you just try `M-x insert-date' then you won't see that it works. That's true
also of any other command with a `delete-selection' property. That has to do
with the region being deactivated when you exit the minibuffer.
To see that it works, bind it to a key and then use the key:
(global-set-key [insert] 'insert-date)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 5:33 can a command specify overwrite selection behavior? Xah Lee
2010-09-01 8:11 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-10 23:37 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2010-12-12 15:16 ` Xah Lee
2010-12-13 17:16 ` Drew Adams
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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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