Cut and paste as easy as in Notepad? (OUPS!!!)
Joel Horowitz
Hye, I just discovered emacs, and it's really great. What makes it really
great is that if you don't love it, you can change it. So I binded my
whole keyboard to the commands I use a lot... There's just one thing that
I'd like to change, but it seems to need more knowledge than just that of
the global-set-key function:
How can I do to replace the usual set-mark-command to something like in
Windows' notepad, that is, using shift-arrows (or shift-control-arrows to
move a whole word...)???
If you have a precise idea of solving this problem, let me know,
but please, don't answer me that I just need to read lisp-emacs
documentation. I learned emacs, because I wanted to learn programming in
Perl, and if I have to learn lisp, there will be an overflow in my level
of recursivity... I have no doubt about the beauty of lisp, but I have
some about my capacity to learn yet one more language...
Thanks,
Joel Horowitz
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Jake Colman
>>>>> "JH" == Joel Horowitz <horo...@ulb.ac.be> writes:
JH> How can I do to replace the usual set-mark-command to something like in
JH> Windows' notepad, that is, using shift-arrows (or shift-control-arrows
JH> to move a whole word...)???
Try M-x pc-selection-mode
The following is copied from C-h f pc-selection-mode.
pc-selection-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `pc-select'.
(pc-selection-mode)
Change mark behaviour to emulate Motif, MAC or MS-Windows cut and paste style.
This mode enables Delete Selection mode and Transient Mark mode.
The arrow keys (and others) are bound to new functions
which modify the status of the mark.
The ordinary arrow keys disable the mark.
The shift-arrow keys move, leaving the mark behind.
C-LEFT and C-RIGHT move back or forward one word, disabling the mark.
S-C-LEFT and S-C-RIGHT move back or forward one word, leaving the mark behind.
M-LEFT and M-RIGHT move back or forward one word or sexp, disabling the mark.
S-M-LEFT and S-M-RIGHT move back or forward one word or sexp, leaving the mark
behind. To control wether these keys move word-wise or sexp-wise set the
variable pc-select-meta-moves-sexps after loading pc-select.el but before
turning pc-selection-mode on.
C-DOWN and C-UP move back or forward a paragraph, disabling the mark.
S-C-DOWN and S-C-UP move back or forward a paragraph, leaving the mark behind.
HOME moves to beginning of line, disabling the mark.
S-HOME moves to beginning of line, leaving the mark behind.
With Ctrl or Meta, these keys move to beginning of buffer instead.
END moves to end of line, disabling the mark.
S-END moves to end of line, leaving the mark behind.
With Ctrl or Meta, these keys move to end of buffer instead.
PRIOR or PAGE-UP scrolls and disables the mark.
S-PRIOR or S-PAGE-UP scrolls and leaves the mark behind.
S-DELETE kills the region (`kill-region').
S-INSERT yanks text from the kill ring (`yank').
C-INSERT copies the region into the kill ring (`copy-region-as-kill').
In addition, certain other PC bindings are imitated (to avoid this, set
the variable pc-select-selection-keys-only to t after loading pc-select.el
but before calling pc-selection-mode):
F6 other-window
DELETE delete-char
C-DELETE kill-line
M-DELETE kill-word
C-M-DELETE kill-sexp
C-BACKSPACE backward-kill-word
M-BACKSPACE undo
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Philip Lijnzaad
col...@ppllc.com (Jake Colman) writes:
>
> >>>>> "JH" == Joel Horowitz <horo...@ulb.ac.be> writes:
>
>
> JH> How can I do to replace the usual set-mark-command to something
> JH> like in Windows' notepad, that is, using shift-arrows (or
> JH> shift-control-arrows to move a whole word...)???
>
> Try M-x pc-selection-mode
this looks quite useful, but I doesn't seem to offer you the possibility to
go back to unix-mode. The usual definition of a minor mode would be
(something-mode ARG) [ (something-mode &optional ARG) ], where
(something-mode) would toggle modes, and (something-mode 1) would switch it
on, and (something-mode nil) would switch it off. Would be usefull if it were
there. Or am I missing something ?
Philip
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Jake Colman
>>>>> "PL" == Philip Lijnzaad <lijn...@ebi.ac.uk> writes:
PL> this looks quite useful, but I doesn't seem to offer you the
PL> possibility to go back to unix-mode. The usual definition of a minor
PL> mode would be (something-mode ARG) [ (something-mode &optional ARG) ],
PL> where (something-mode) would toggle modes, and (something-mode 1) would
PL> switch it on, and (something-mode nil) would switch it off. Would be
PL> usefull if it were there. Or am I missing something ?
You appear to be correct. It is less a mode than it is a reconfiguration
package. You did notice BTW that it does _not_ update the modeline. No known
cure is available!