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Re: elisp question - hungry backspaces
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David Hansen |
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Re: elisp question - hungry backspaces |
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Sat, 24 May 2008 06:11:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 23 May 2008 11:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Clemenceau wrote:
> I'm writing an emacs major mode, and want to implement a hungry-delete
> feature, much like the one c++-mode has. I've written the handler function,
> which tells if the previous character is a space/tab or a real character,
> and acts accordingly.
>
> However...
> I'm having problems with deleting a marked region. I'm using
> pc-selection-mode, and want the function to give priority to deleting a
> region if one has been marked, before doing a hungry or 1-character
> deletion.
Why do you want to overwrite emacs standard behavior in the first place?
There already is:
`backward-delete-char-untabify-method'
`delete-selection-mode'
David