From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wrap predefined text around region
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:18:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idag66$jmk$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwufhlup.fsf@newsguy.com>
On 12/2/10 3:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone show an example of how to do something like this:
>
> I want to wrap this:
>
> # [HP 101202_15:55:07
> # ]
>
> Around the selected text...
> <selected text region here>
> <selected text region here>
> <selected text region here>
> <selected text region here>
>
> that is, select some text and press a key
> combo ... voila... its now surrounded by:
> # [HP 101202_15:55:07
>
> # ]
>
> Over the yrs I've acquired a fairly lengthy .emacs mostly by theft
> from more skilled people. Coding something like that is clear out of
> my skill set.
>
> I use lots of `skeleton' things for inserting various predefined texts
> but don't know how to make that happen to selected region.
>
> Usually given an example, I've been able to hack it up to my needs.
`skeleton' sounds like it's the right level of abstraction, but since I'm not
familiar with it here's a hack:
(defun delimit-region (beg end beg-delim end-delim)
"Delimit region from BEG to END by inserting BEG-DELIM and END-DELIM text."
(interactive "r\nsBegin: \nsEnd: ")
(unless (markerp end)
(setq end (copy-marker end)))
(unwind-protect
(progn
(save-excursion
(goto-char beg)
(insert-before-markers beg-delim))
(save-excursion
(goto-char end)
(insert end-delim)))
(when (markerp end)
(set-marker end nil))))
Hope that helps,
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-03 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 22:05 Wrap predefined text around region Harry Putnam
2010-12-03 10:18 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2010-12-03 12:14 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-12-03 14:31 ` Kenneth Goldman
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