From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RFE: Editing string literals like org-mode? Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:05:12 +0000 Organization: http://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87ft0gofon.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2318"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mP9PqrcaQOOZ1JB176Msx4zvVlg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 27 15:05:51 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lQ9ZX-0000Sz-Fl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:05:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQ9ZW-0002zR-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQ9Z4-0002o8-QG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQ9Z2-0001jY-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lQ9Z1-000AOl-7W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:05:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128709 Archived-At: Hi, motivation: I was editing some Ansible files that are in YAML syntax with yaml-mode (https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode). I found the YAML type of quoting rather confusing so I mused that there should be a yaml-yank-quoted function that, with no prefix argument, inserts the last kill in double quotes, with a prefix argument, inserts the last kill as a multiline block, etc. so that I could edit the "value" in another buffer, kill it there and yank it properly quoted in my YAML buffer. Ideally, there would be a corresponding kill-yaml-value-at-point function (or an extension to thing-at-point) so that I could copy the "value" dequoted to that other buffer. And org-mode has that nice feature org-edit-special (C-c ') for inter alia #+BEGIN_SRC blocks where you can edit the block's contents in another buff- er--so why couldn't there be an equivalent for yaml-mode? Thinking of other modes, I recalled that I have often yearn- ed for a way to insert/edit a properly quoted string liter- al, whether in SQL or shell scripts that call sed or perl, just like I can in emacs-lisp-mode with prin1 et al. And Emacs has already a notion for what a string literal looks like in different modes by marking them up with font-lock-string-face. And, to complete the circle, #+BEGIN_SRC blocks in org-mode could be interpreted as just another form of string literal. So Emacs seems to be missing (to be bikeshedded): - an (optional) function foo-quote for each major mode so that (insert (foo-quote (read-string "String: "))) inserts the input properly quoted in the current buffer, - an (optional) function foo-read-string-literal-at-point that returns the dequoted string literal at point, and - a function bound to C-c ' that edits the string literal at point just like org-mode does (if the major mode provides the necessary foo-quote and foo-read-string-literal-at-point functions). Now this suggestion appears to be so obvious that it is either already implemented or could not work :-). Comments? Tim