From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Decebal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Writing a function for a indented copy of a region Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:18:51 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229542877 27191 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2008 19:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:41:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 20:42:22 2008 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 1LD2HM-0002Zj-Lh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:41:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD2GA-000188-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:40:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.158.139.99 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1229541531 11713 127.0.0.1 (17 Dec 2008 19:18:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.158.139.99; posting-account=K-cdeAoAAAD_0d505kUtHXJaT5LFIu-3 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 proxy-25:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE8), 1.0 netcache-2 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5), 1.0 netcache-2 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5), 1.1 cache-1:80 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165411 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:60741 Archived-At: On 17 dec, 14:31, Decebal wrote: > A lot of times I need to copy a part of a (log) file for an e-mail. I > like to indent this (default with four spaces). At this moment I do > this by hand. But I would like to do this with a function. > What I would like this function to do is take the part that is > selected, indent this with (default) four spaces, put the indented > region in the kill-ring and undo the indent. Has anyone a pointer > about how to code this? I found a way. In my .emacs I put: (defun my-indented-yank(indent) "Put indented region in the kill-ring" (interactive "p") (setq indent (cond ((eq indent 0) 1) ((eq indent 1) 4) (t indent) ) ) (indent-rigidly (region-beginning) (region-end) indent) (copy-region-as-kill (region-beginning) (region-end)) (undo) ) It looks like this satifies my demands. ;-} In this way the default indent is 4. If I need an indent of one I can use 'C-u 0'. The only thing is that the 'GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' says that I should not use 'copy-region-as-kill'. I should use 'kill-new' or 'kill-append'. But those do not work with a region. What am I missing?