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FW: commands to select things of different kinds
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
FW: commands to select things of different kinds |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:06:25 -0700 |
Resending -
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:45 AM
Resending, at Richard's request.
> From: Richard Stallman Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: Drew Adams
>
> Not really; haven't thought much about it. As I said,
> I've been using
> `C-M-SPC' for `mark-thing' (stealing from `mark-sexp')
> and `M-@' for
> `cycle-thing-region' (stealing from `mark-word').
>
> Those might be a good replacement, because I would expect people don't
> use those two bindings very much. But we have to ask people first.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Adams Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:52 PM
> To: address@hidden
>
> > > If the region is not yet active, then you are prompted (with
> > > completion) for the type of thing to select. The default type
> > > is `sexp'.
> >
> > For the first such thing, the region is not active, so you
> > are prompted. For subsequent (successive) things, there is
> > no prompt - the same type is used as the last. When you are
> > prompted, `sexp' is the default type.
> >
> > I see. Maybe it is a good idea. If people like it, we can
> install it
> > in Emacs.
> >
> > Do you have suggested bindings for these two commands?
>
> Not really; haven't thought much about it. As I said, I've
> been using `C-M-SPC' for `mark-thing' (stealing from
> `mark-sexp') and `M-@' for `cycle-thing-region' (stealing
> from `mark-word'). But, as I also said, I'm not suggesting
> changing those bindings for Emacs.
>
> I think these commands are mainly useful for Transient Mark
> mode, if that helps. Perhaps there are some bindings that
> normally make less sense in t-m mode, which could therefore
> be recuperated. I don't know.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Adams Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:17 AM
> To: Emacs-Devel
>
> Any interest in these commands? They let you select (that is,
> mark) various
> things at or near point. They are most useful in Transient
> Mark mode - they
> act differently depending on whether the mark is active.
>
> * `mark-thing' selects successive things, starting at point.
> The mark is put
> at the same place that command 'forward-'thing would put it
> (using the same
> prefix argument). If the region is not yet active, then you
> are prompted
> (with completion) for the type of thing to select. The default type is
> `sexp'.
>
> * `cycle-thing-region' selects one thing at or near point
> (just the thing,
> not from point through the thing, even if the thing is not exactly at
> point). Repeat it to cycle among the thing types - one thing
> of the current
> type is selected at each invocation. The default order of
> types is `word',
> `sexp', `list', `line', `sentence', `paragraph', `page',
> `defun', `number',
> `form'. That order is customizable, and a major mode could
> also change it to
> put the most commonly used types first.
>
> I bind `mark-thing' to `C-M-SPC' as a replacement for `mark-sexp'.
>
> I bind `cycle-thing-region' to `M-@' as a replacement for
> `mark-word'. (By
> default, it does what `mark-word' does without a prefix arg. Unlike,
> `mark-thing', however, `cycle-thing-region' does not accept a
> prefix arg.)
>
> I don't propose these bindings for Emacs generally, but if you use
> transient-mark mode you might want to give them a try.
>
> To select successive things in transient-mark mode, you can use
> `cycle-thing-region' as an alternative to completion for
> choosing the thing
> type for `mark-thing' - but you need to use `C-x C-x' between
> the two. That
> is, you can use 'M-@ C-x C-x C-M-SPC' to select successive
> words, 'M-@ M-@
> C-x C-x C-M-SPC' for successive symbols, and so on.
>
> The code is attached.
thing-cmds.el
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- Re: FW: commands to select things of different kinds, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/18
- Re: FW: commands to select things of different kinds, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/19
- Re: FW: commands to select things of different kinds, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/19
- delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds), Juri Linkov, 2008/04/19
- Re: delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds), Kim F. Storm, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/20