From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: kill-region defadvice Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:45:45 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212943671 21915 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 16:47:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:47:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 18:48:34 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 1K5O4A-0007rD-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:48:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5O3N-0001tA-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5O1m-0000q1-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5O1k-0000pB-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58925 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5O1k-0000oz-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33187 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5O1j-0006UH-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K5O1j-0003st-8o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:45:55 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:45:55 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:45:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:54621 Archived-At: Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > Joe wrote: > >> Originally I did this by writing a new function that checked >> if the mark was active. However, I think that using defadvice is a >> better solution but I got stuck while trying to write it. > > No, it's not! By using advice, you modify the kill-region function and > risk that any command using it will backward-kill-word instead. Just write the advice as (if (and (interactive-p) mark-active) ad-do-it (backward-kill-word 1)) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA