From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : mark multi regions, kill and yank Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:54:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87il6ovvvg.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87lebkxfml.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=sha256; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38921"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:y0Yfc0MNNkQriI334LxeizrpMm0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 18:55:42 2023 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 1qxWUH-0009wE-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qxWTo-000850-Gn; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qxWTc-00081b-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qxWTZ-0003Rt-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:55:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qxWTV-0008j3-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:54:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never 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: 2.1.29 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145425 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>> "DA" =3D=3D Drew Adams writes: >> I am looking for a package that allows me >> 1. to mark several regions, >> 2. To kill them >> 3. And then later to yank everything. > `C-w' kills the region text. > `C-M-w' appends the region text to the last kill. > So just use `C-w' for one region, then > `C-M-w C-w' for each subsequent region you > want to kill. Each `C-M-w C-w' appends that > region to the latest string in `kill-ring'. > Then `C-y' yanks them all, as the latest string > in `kill-ring'. > ___ I know, but this is not very visual, I really like to have the different region marked before I start any action. The multi-region looks very much what I need, but the kill operation only works for one marked region and append-next-kill does not work with this package (which is very old, it is a miracle that it somehow still works, well it is Emacs of course) > If you don't want to kill the regions, and you > just want to copy them together (concatenated) > to the kill-ring, you can use library zones.el > for that. And it doesn't matter when you "mark" > the regions of text that you want to later yank > together. > By default, each time you narrow the buffer, > the buffer restriction (the "narrowing") is > added to a list of zones, which is the value of > a variable (`zz-izones', by default). > You can prevent this automatic adding of > narrowings as zones, by setting option > `zz-narrowing-adds-zones-flag' to nil. Ok thanks for pointint that out I will have look and for sure use the function you provided below > You can instead explicitly add the active > region of text as a zone using `C-x n a' > (command `zz-add-zone'). So just use that > any time you want to record a zone. > This is like `M-w', but instead of adding the > region's text to the kill-ring it adds it to > the current izones variable as a zone. > It's easy to define a command that copies the > text of the zones together to the `kill-ring': > (defun zz-copy-izones-as-kill (&optional variable) > "Copy text in izones to kill-ring. > The zones to use are those of VARIABLE that are in the current buffer. > VARIABLE defaults to the value of `zz-izones-var'. With a prefix arg > you are prompted for a different variable to use." > (interactive > (list (or (and current-prefix-arg > (zz-read-any-variable > "Variable: " zz-izones-var t)) > zz-izones-var))) > (let* ((var (or variable zz-izones-var)) > (izones (symbol-value var)) > (strings ())) > (dolist (iz izones) > (push (buffer-substring (cadr iz) (caddr iz)) strings)) > (kill-new (apply #'concat strings)))) > You can alternatively use a noncontiguous region. > `zones.el' has functions for converting a set of > zones to and from a noncontiguous region. (For > one thing, this gives you an easy way to construct > a noncontiguous region of any sort interactively.) =2D-=20 Warning: Content may be disturbing to some audiences I strongly condemn Hamas terroristic attack on Israel, especially the despi= cable pogroms. I strongly condemn Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine. I support to deliver weapons to Ukraine's military.=20 I support the NATO membership of Ukraine. 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