Putting a – on both sides of a region

Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Cecil Westerhof]

I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en dash
is inserted before the region and after it. Is this hard to implement?

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Deniz Dogan]

2011/3/30 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>:
> I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
> I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en dash
> is inserted before the region and after it. Is this hard to implement?
>

I think it depends on how you insert this character. Here is a crude
command which does it for you:

(defun insert-or-wrap (string)
  (interactive "*")
  (if (not (use-region-p))
      (insert string)
    (let ((beg (region-beginning))
          (end (region-end)))
    (goto-char beg)
    (insert string)
    (goto-char (+ (length string) end))
    (insert string))))

So (insert-or-wrap "heh") wraps the region in "heh" if the region is
active, otherwise it simply inserts "heh" at point.

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Le Wang]

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:

> I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
> I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en dash
> is inserted before the region and after it. Is this hard to implement?
>
> --
> Cecil Westerhof
> Senior Software Engineer
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
>

(defun wrap-region-maybe (arg)
  "wrap region in char or run `self-insert-command' if no region"
  (interactive "*p")
  (if (use-region-p)
      (let ((r-beg (region-beginning))
            (r-end (+ arg (region-end))))
        (goto-char r-beg)
        (self-insert-command arg)
        (goto-char r-end)
        (self-insert-command arg))
    (self-insert-command arg)))

-- 
Le

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Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
> I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en dash
> is inserted before the region and after it. 

You should not.  Typographically, it's the — em dash that's used for
this purpose.

> Is this hard to implement?

No.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.

Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2011-03-30 15:54 (+0200), Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>> I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
>> I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en
>> dash is inserted before the region and after it.
>
> You should not. Typographically, it's the — em dash that's used for
> this purpose.

Depends on the language.

Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[rusi]

On Mar 30, 8:06 pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> * 2011-03-30 15:54 (+0200), Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>
> > Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:
> >> I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
> >> I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en
> >> dash is inserted before the region and after it.
>
> > You should not. Typographically, it's the — em dash that's used for
> > this purpose.
>
> Depends on the language.

No consensus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash

Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.03.2011 um 15:54 schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:

> You should not.  Typographically, it's the — em dash that's used for
> this purpose.


This is bad US American taste. No European, including the British,  
would do so.

--
Greetings

   Pete

Who the fsck is "General Failure," and why is he reading my disk?

RE: Putting a - on both sides of a region

[Drew Adams]

> No European, including the British, would do so.

Real Europeans don't consider the British European.
Likewise, real Brits, no doubt.

Jusssst kidding. ;-)