From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Quote Selection Do What I Mean (DWIM) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256301729 23009 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2009 12:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:42:09 +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 Oct 23 14:42:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N1JT0-00032X-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N1JSz-0005id-IU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:42:01 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256298694 23082 127.0.0.1 (23 Oct 2009 11:51:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip1-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/6.3.0-523) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.223.6 Safari/532.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174087 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69169 Archived-At: If transient-mark-mode is activate it would be nice to have some clever major-mode-sensitive auto-insertion of single quotes and backquotes. in emacs-lisp-mode we want the following mappings - ' =3D> `symbol' in comment-syntax - ' =3D> 'symbol in code-syntax (no change - " =3D> "string" everywhere Does emacs have a suitable before/after/replace hook related to self- insert-command that can be used to realize this behaviour? Suitable function name could be quote-dwim(). Has anybody already done this? Reflections... Thanks in advance, Nordl=F6w