Re: How to get the ~ functionality of vi

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> The thing-at-point did not work for me.

OK, try

    (require 'thingatpt)

first.

It is a useful thing even tho your code is
perhaps (?) better in this case.

> I like to flip a lot of characters in one
> swell swoop.

OK, you can use the C-u prefix to do that.

So `C-c f'         is 4^0 = 1,
   `C-u C-c f'     is 4^1 = 4,
   `C-u C-u C-c f' is 4^2 = 16, and so on; and
   `C-u x C-c f'   is x!

This can be implemented like this:

    (require 'cl-macs)

    (defun flip-case (times)
      (interactive "p")
      (cl-dotimes (_ times)
        (let ((c (string-to-char (thing-at-point 'char t))))
          (delete-char 1)
          (cond ((and (>= c ?A) (<= c ?Z)) (insert-char (downcase c)))
                ((and (>= c ?a) (<= c ?z)) (insert-char (upcase c)))
                (t                         (insert-char c)))) ))

    (global-set-key "\C-cf" #'flip-case)

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