Quote marked region [utilities]

Quote marked region [utilities]

[Jean Louis]

Few utilities I have made today for quoting marked region with quotes
or escaped quotes. Very simple and handy when editing quoted strings,
like function descriptions or similar. Who knows, maybe it already
exists in Emacs.

(defun quote-region-single (start end)
  "Quotes marked region with single quotes."
  (interactive "r")
  (goto-char end)
  (insert "'")
  (goto-char start)
  (insert "'"))

(defun quote-region-double (start end)
  "Quotes marked region with double quotes."
  (interactive "r")
  (goto-char end)
  (insert "\"")
  (goto-char start)
  (insert "\""))

(defun quote-region-double-escaped (start end)
  "Quotes marked region with escaped double quotes."
  (interactive "r")
  (goto-char end)
  (insert "\\\"")
  (goto-char start)
  (insert "\\\""))


Jean

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:59:17 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> 
> Few utilities I have made today for quoting marked region with quotes
> or escaped quotes. Very simple and handy when editing quoted strings,
> like function descriptions or similar. Who knows, maybe it already
> exists in Emacs.

See combine-and-quote-strings.  (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to
find something like that?)

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:06:46 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> See combine-and-quote-strings.

Or maybe replace-region-contents.

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-28 13:07]:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:59:17 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > 
> > Few utilities I have made today for quoting marked region with quotes
> > or escaped quotes. Very simple and handy when editing quoted strings,
> > like function descriptions or similar. Who knows, maybe it already
> > exists in Emacs.
> 
> See combine-and-quote-strings.  (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to
> find something like that?)

`combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not
interactive function that works on region, and my function does not
yet work on list of strings

M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that
way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker
symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like:

Describe function: *quote*reg<TAB><TAB>
or
Describe function: *reg*quote<TAB><TAB>
or 
Describe function: *quote*stri<TAB><TAB>
or
Describe function: *strin*quote<TAB><TAB>

and other good way to find functions is by using some of completion
packages like `ivy' as then one can type one or two words and find it
in reverse order.

Jean

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-28 13:07]:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:59:17 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > 
> > Few utilities I have made today for quoting marked region with quotes
> > or escaped quotes. Very simple and handy when editing quoted strings,
> > like function descriptions or similar. Who knows, maybe it already
> > exists in Emacs.

Actually, I was thinking it could exist under some different names not
related to "quote".

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > See combine-and-quote-strings.  (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to
> > find something like that?)
> 
> `combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not
> interactive function that works on region, and my function does not
> yet work on list of strings

But it's trivial to make use of combine-and-quote-strings, coupled
with buffer-substring, to produce a command that works on the region,
no?

> M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that
> way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker
> symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like:

That's much less efficient.  Try this instead:

  M-x apropos RET string quote RET

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:23:20 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-28 13:07]:
> > > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:59:17 +0300
> > > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > > 
> > > Few utilities I have made today for quoting marked region with quotes
> > > or escaped quotes. Very simple and handy when editing quoted strings,
> > > like function descriptions or similar. Who knows, maybe it already
> > > exists in Emacs.
> 
> Actually, I was thinking it could exist under some different names not
> related to "quote".

Before you conclude that, you had better exhausted all the possible
ways of searching for a function whose name does use "quote".

Re: Quote marked region [utilities]

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-28 13:30]:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > See combine-and-quote-strings.  (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to
> > > find something like that?)
> > 
> > `combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not
> > interactive function that works on region, and my function does not
> > yet work on list of strings
> 
> But it's trivial to make use of combine-and-quote-strings, coupled
> with buffer-substring, to produce a command that works on the region,
> no?
> 
> > M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that
> > way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker
> > symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like:
> 
> That's much less efficient.  Try this instead:
> 
>   M-x apropos RET string quote RET

Definitely, I have to use apropos.