Re: DWIM when yanking strings with leading or trailing spaces - an idea

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2016-03-04, at 10:45, Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> In one case, it's easy: I have a function which inserts a dash, killing
>> any other punctuation in that place, and if region is active, it
>> surrounds it with dashes.  /Extremely/ useful.  Also, this:
>> http://mbork.pl/2015-10-31_Smart_comma_and_other_punctuation .
>
> Nice.

Thanks!

> For me, though, this:
>
> ,----
> | And now that I have this, I think I could do a similar thing with C-t,
> | so that it transposes two chars before the point (as opposed as two
> | chars around the point) if there is a space before the point.
> `----
>
> would be a bad idea, because I often use `transpose-chars' to correct
> things like "th emistake". Which I unfortunately type quite often...

Ah, I see.  I seldom make this kind of mistake.  Though it turned out
I didn't do that anyway.

>>> Anyway, my opinion shouldn't stop you from creating such a package, of
>>> course. I mean, it bugs you, so that should be enough of a reason,
>>>
>>> right? ;-)
>>
>> Yes and no.  It's on the limit of the "automation horizon" (see
>> https://xkcd.com/1205/) ;-)
>
> So you basically posted your question looking for an excuse to do some
> coding? ;-)

Exactly. ;-) As Emperor Palpatine once put it, "now feel the power of
procrastination!"

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University