From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Writing a command that assumes control of the keyboard, like isearch does
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:25:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fx2hs3nl.fsf@ergodik.univ-brest.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2iq7d4dwj.fsf@gmail.com
Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:
> I want to write a command that assumes control of the keyboard until it
> returns, highlighting and modifying the current buffer in the meantime,
> like the isearch family of commands do.
>
> Specifically, I have some text that is the output from an OCR process,
> in which the spaces between words have sometimes been lost; for example:
>
> GNUEmacsisanextensible,customizabletexteditor—andmore.
>
> I want to write a command that will wait for me to type a letter, then
> advance the cursor to that letter and provisionally insert a space after
> it, highlighting the passed-over text (the provisional word, that is).
> If I then type a space, I confirm the provisional word; if I type
> another letter, the provisional space is removed, and the cursor skips
> to the newer letter I typed and inserts another provisional space.
> Therefore, I could break the words in the sample text above with this
> key sequence:
>
> u SPC s SPC s SPC n SPC e e SPC e SPC t t SPC r SPC d SPC
>
> Some kind of special handling would probably be needed for punctuation,
> but I can resolve those details later. And I suppose RET would probably
> terminate the command.
> Any pointers to get me on the right track, or even just references to
> the appropriate places in the manual that I might have missed, would be
> greatly appreciated.
A simple while loop (with no body !) together with read-event may be sufficient.
Something like
(defun essai ()
(interactive)
(let (key
(echo-keystrokes 0))
(setq key (read-event))
(while
(when (characterp key)
(search-forward (char-to-string key) nil t)
(insert " ")
(setq key (read-event))
(if (equal key ?\ )
(setq key (read-event))
(delete-char -1)
t)))))
BTW it seems there is a missing e
u SPC s SPC s SPC n SPC e e e SPC e SPC t t SPC r SPC d SPC
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2010-04-27 6:18 Writing a command that assumes control of the keyboard, like isearch does Sean McAfee
2010-04-27 8:25 ` harven [this message]
2010-04-27 8:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
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