From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp question - hungry backspaces Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 06:11:26 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <871w3swdch.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <17432649.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211603034 14309 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2008 04:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 04:23:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 24 06:24:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzlJ1-0001yV-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 06:24:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzlIG-0001RC-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzlI0-0001R7-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzlHx-0001Ql-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49241 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzlHx-0001Qi-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34251 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzlHx-0005Tj-8p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JzlHo-0007pl-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 04:23:16 +0000 Original-Received: from e178045149.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.45.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 04:23:16 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178045149.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 04:23:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178045149.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:30Sa+O0HKXWZGS2sgDDq3M2xCVw= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54285 Archived-At: On Fri, 23 May 2008 11:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Clemenceau wrote: > I'm writing an emacs major mode, and want to implement a hungry-delete > feature, much like the one c++-mode has. I've written the handler function, > which tells if the previous character is a space/tab or a real character, > and acts accordingly. > > However... > I'm having problems with deleting a marked region. I'm using > pc-selection-mode, and want the function to give priority to deleting a > region if one has been marked, before doing a hungry or 1-character > deletion. Why do you want to overwrite emacs standard behavior in the first place? There already is: `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' `delete-selection-mode' David