From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fire defun by typing keyword Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:58:58 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zjpo0wz8.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <871u33mqj0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383332420 23743 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2013 19:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 19:00:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 20:00:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VcJxI-0008Jv-Jg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:00:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcJxI-0005PR-8H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:00:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GpCy8GntGS866jN53PGTZcJTYJg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202026 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94297 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Again, it would work just as abbrev, only instead of >> a table lookup and replace, it would trigger a defun. > > An abbrev can have a "hook", which is indeed a > function that gets called after inserting the > expansion. So, you can do the above with an abbrev > like > > ("mydate" "" date) Cool! I took a break from "dead-serious hacking" a couple of days and solved this problem with the help of the idle timer you told me about earlier. This "solution" is not one I would recommend to anyone, but it was interesting to see that the idle timer indeed worked exactly as expected. (defun word-to-defun (word) (if (string= word "thedate") (progn (backward-kill-word 1) (date)) )) (defun read-last-word () (save-excursion (backward-word) (string-make-multibyte (thing-at-point 'word)) )) (defun read-trigger-last-word () (interactive) (word-to-defun (read-last-word)) ) (run-with-idle-timer 1 t 'read-trigger-last-word) -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573