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Re: DWIM when yanking strings with leading or trailing spaces - an idea
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: DWIM when yanking strings with leading or trailing spaces - an idea |
Date: |
4 Mar 2016 09:45:11 GMT |
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Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> In one case, it's easy: I have a function which inserts a dash, killing
> any other punctuation in that place, and if region is active, it
> surrounds it with dashes. /Extremely/ useful. Also, this:
> http://mbork.pl/2015-10-31_Smart_comma_and_other_punctuation .
Nice.
For me, though, this:
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| And now that I have this, I think I could do a similar thing with C-t,
| so that it transposes two chars before the point (as opposed as two
| chars around the point) if there is a space before the point.
`----
would be a bad idea, because I often use `transpose-chars' to correct
things like "th emistake". Which I unfortunately type quite often...
>> Anyway, my opinion shouldn't stop you from creating such a package, of
>> course. I mean, it bugs you, so that should be enough of a reason,
>>
>> right? ;-)
>
> Yes and no. It's on the limit of the "automation horizon" (see
> https://xkcd.com/1205/) ;-)
So you basically posted your question looking for an excuse to do some
coding? ;-)
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