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2010-04-04 John Wiegley <[e-mail]> * ido.el (ido-use-virtual-buffers): New variable to indicate whether "virtual buffer" support is enabled for IDO. Essentially it works as follows: Say you are visiting a file and the buffer gets cleaned up by mignight.el. Later, you want to switch to that buffer, but find it's no longer open. With virtual buffers enabled, the buffer name stays in the buffer list (using the ido-virtual face, and always at the end), and if you select it, it opens the file back up again. This allows you to think less about whether recently opened files are still open or not. Most of the time you can quit Emacs, restart, and then switch to a file buffer that was previously open as if it still were. NOTE: This feature has been present in iswitchb for several years now, and I'm porting the same logic to IDO. (ido-virtual): Face used to indicate virtual buffers in the list. (ido-buffer-internal): If a buffer is chosen, and no such buffer exists, but a virtual buffer of that name does (which would be why it was in the list), recreate the buffer by reopening the file. (ido-make-buffer-list): If virtual buffers are being used, call `ido-add-virtual-buffers-to-list' before the make list hook. (ido-virtual-buffers): New variable which contains a copy of the current contents of the `recentf-list', albeit pared down for the sake of speed, and with proper faces applied. (ido-add-virtual-buffers-to-list): Using the `recentf-list', create a list of "virtual buffers" to present to the user in addition to the currently open set. Note that this logic could get rather slow if that list is too large. With the default `recentf-max-saved-items' of 200, there is little speed penalty.

;;; misc.el --- some nonstandard basic editing commands for Emacs

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;; Keywords: convenience

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;;; Commentary:

;;; Code:

(defun copy-from-above-command (&optional arg)
  "Copy characters from previous nonblank line, starting just above point.
Copy ARG characters, but not past the end of that line.
If no argument given, copy the entire rest of the line.
The characters copied are inserted in the buffer before point."
  (interactive "P")
  (let ((cc (current-column))
	n
	(string ""))
    (save-excursion
      (beginning-of-line)
      (backward-char 1)
      (skip-chars-backward "\ \t\n")
      (move-to-column cc)
      ;; Default is enough to copy the whole rest of the line.
      (setq n (if arg (prefix-numeric-value arg) (point-max)))
      ;; If current column winds up in middle of a tab,
      ;; copy appropriate number of "virtual" space chars.
      (if (< cc (current-column))
	  (if (= (preceding-char) ?\t)
	      (progn
		(setq string (make-string (min n (- (current-column) cc)) ?\s))
		(setq n (- n (min n (- (current-column) cc)))))
	    ;; In middle of ctl char => copy that whole char.
	    (backward-char 1)))
      (setq string (concat string
			   (buffer-substring
			    (point)
			    (min (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))
				 (+ n (point)))))))
    (insert string)))

;; Variation of `zap-to-char'.

(defun zap-up-to-char (arg char)
  "Kill up to, but not including ARGth occurrence of CHAR.
Case is ignored if `case-fold-search' is non-nil in the current buffer.
Goes backward if ARG is negative; error if CHAR not found.
Ignores CHAR at point."
  (interactive "p\ncZap up to char: ")
  (let ((direction (if (>= arg 0) 1 -1)))
    (kill-region (point)
		 (progn
		   (forward-char direction)
		   (unwind-protect
		       (search-forward (char-to-string char) nil nil arg)
		     (backward-char direction))
		   (point)))))

;; These were added with an eye to making possible a more CCA-compatible
;; command set; but that turned out not to be interesting.

(defun mark-beginning-of-buffer ()
  "Set mark at the beginning of the buffer."
  (interactive)
  (push-mark (point-min)))

(defun mark-end-of-buffer ()
  "Set mark at the end of the buffer."
  (interactive)
  (push-mark (point-max)))

(defun upcase-char (arg)
  "Uppercasify ARG chars starting from point.  Point doesn't move."
  (interactive "p")
  (save-excursion
    (upcase-region (point) (progn (forward-char arg) (point)))))

(defun forward-to-word (arg)
  "Move forward until encountering the beginning of a word.
With argument, do this that many times."
  (interactive "p")
  (or (re-search-forward (if (> arg 0) "\\W\\b" "\\b\\W") nil t arg)
      (goto-char (if (> arg 0) (point-max) (point-min)))))

(defun backward-to-word (arg)
  "Move backward until encountering the end of a word.
With argument, do this that many times."
  (interactive "p")
  (forward-to-word (- arg)))

;;;###autoload
(defun butterfly ()
  "Use butterflies to flip the desired bit on the drive platter.
Open hands and let the delicate wings flap once.  The disturbance
ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the
upper atmosphere.  These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure
air to form, which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays,
focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
You can type `M-x butterfly C-M-c' to run it.  This is a permuted
variation of `C-x M-c M-butterfly' from url `http://xkcd.com/378/'."
  (interactive)
  (if (yes-or-no-p "Do you really want to unleash the powers of the butterfly? ")
      (progn
	(switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*butterfly*"))
	(erase-buffer)
	(sit-for 0)
	(animate-string "Amazing physics going on..."
			(/ (window-height) 2) (- (/ (window-width) 2) 12))
	(sit-for (* 5 (/ (abs (random)) (float most-positive-fixnum))))
	(message "Successfully flipped one bit!"))
    (message "Well, then go to xkcd.com!")
    (browse-url "http://xkcd.com/378/")))

(provide 'misc)

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