From: Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: alt to copy-region-as-kill for kill ring
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:57:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735x7qr2z.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
The following function to copies a word in the visible buffer and comes
back to point to yank it. It builds on avy package.
(defun boomrang (query-char)
"kill word and come back to point"
(interactive (list (read-char "Query Char:")))
(save-excursion
(progn
(avy-goto-word-1 query-char)
(copy-region-as-kill (point) (progn (re-search-forward "[[:alnum:]_-]*") (point)))))
(yank))
There are a few limitations to it:
- if the word is in a different buffer it yank it but the cursor does
not come back
- If we bind the function to a key (say C-'), it is rather difficult to control the copy-region-as-kill as when
used with this function it behaves like C-M-w (see function kill-ring-save).
for instance (cursor position is represented as a |)
|dfd ## M-d C-' (Query-char i) ==> dfdinstance
when only instance is wanted. A temporary solution might be to enter a
key between after M-d to deactivate appending. But this solution is
costly.
Do you have an better solution?
Best regards,
--
Jeremie Juste
next reply other threads:[~2021-03-07 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-07 8:57 Jeremie Juste [this message]
2021-03-07 9:43 ` alt to copy-region-as-kill for kill ring Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-07 10:35 ` Jeremie Juste
2021-03-07 14:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-07 17:11 ` Jeremie Juste
2021-03-07 18:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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