From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quote Selection Do What I Mean (DWIM)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:19:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a5a42gz.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b341ad75-6615-4b5d-8d54-d72ac3f5d01b@e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com
Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:
> If transient-mark-mode is activate it would be nice to have some
> clever major-mode-sensitive auto-insertion of single quotes and
> backquotes.
>
> in emacs-lisp-mode we want the following mappings
> - ' => `symbol' in comment-syntax
> - ' => 'symbol in code-syntax (no change
> - " => "string" everywhere
>
> Does emacs have a suitable before/after/replace hook related to self-
> insert-command that can be used to realize this behaviour?
>
> Suitable function name could be quote-dwim().
>
> Has anybody already done this? Reflections...
In paredit, " behaves differently in code-syntax than in comment-syntax.
' behave the same everywhere.
You could easily propose a patch to paredit to add the wanted behavior for '.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 11:51 Quote Selection Do What I Mean (DWIM) Nordlöw
2009-10-23 12:27 ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-10-23 14:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-10-23 14:55 ` Nordlöw
2009-10-23 16:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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