;;; s-region.el --- set region using shift key;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.;; Author: Morten Welinder <terra@diku.dk>;; Keywords: terminals;; Favourite-brand-of-beer: None, I hate beer.;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option);; any later version.;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the;; GNU General Public License for more details.;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.;;; Commentary:;; Having loaded this code you can set the region by holding down the;; shift key and move the cursor to the other end of the region. The;; functionality provided by this code is similar to that provided by;; the editors of Borland International's compilers for ms-dos.;; Currently, s-region-move may be bound only to events that are vectors;; of length one and whose last element is a symbol. Also, the functions;; that are given this kind of overlay should be (interactive "p");; functions.;; If the following keys are not already bound then...;; C-insert is bound to copy-region-as-kill;; S-delete is bound to kill-region;; S-insert is bound to yank;;; Code:(defvar s-region-overlay (make-overlay 1 1))(overlay-put s-region-overlay 'face 'region)(overlay-put s-region-overlay 'priority 1000000) ; for hilit19(defun s-region-unshift (key) "Remove shift modifier from last keypress KEY and return that as a key." (if (vectorp key) (let ((last (aref key (1- (length key))))) (if (symbolp last) (let* ((keyname (symbol-name last)) (pos (string-match "S-" keyname))) (if pos ;; We skip all initial parts of the event assuming that ;; those are setting up the prefix argument to the command. (vector (intern (concat (substring keyname 0 pos) (substring keyname (+ 2 pos))))) (error "Non-shifted key: %S" key))) (error "Key does not end in a symbol: %S" key))) (error "Non-vector key: %S" key)))(defun s-region-move-p1 (&rest arg) "This is an overlay function to point-moving keys that are interactive \"p\"" (interactive "p") (apply (function s-region-move) arg))(defun s-region-move-p2 (&rest arg) "This is an overlay function to point-moving keys that are interactive \"P\"" (interactive "P") (apply (function s-region-move) arg))(defun s-region-move (&rest arg) (if (if mark-active (not (equal last-command 's-region-move)) t) (set-mark-command nil) (message "")) ; delete the "Mark set" message (setq this-command 's-region-move) (apply (key-binding (s-region-unshift (this-command-keys))) arg) (move-overlay s-region-overlay (mark) (point) (current-buffer)) (sit-for 1) (delete-overlay s-region-overlay))(defun s-region-bind (keylist &optional map) "Bind shifted keys in KEYLIST to s-region-move-p1 or s-region-move-p2.Each key in KEYLIST is shifted and bound to one of the s-region-movefunctions provided it is already bound to some command or other.Optional third argument MAP specifies keymap to add binding to, defaultingto global keymap." (let ((p2 (list 'scroll-up 'scroll-down 'beginning-of-buffer 'end-of-buffer))) (or map (setq map global-map)) (while keylist (let* ((key (car keylist)) (binding (key-binding key))) (if (commandp binding) (define-key map (vector (intern (concat "S-" (symbol-name (aref key 0))))) (cond ((memq binding p2) 's-region-move-p2) (t 's-region-move-p1))))) (setq keylist (cdr keylist)))));; Single keys (plus modifiers) only!(s-region-bind (list [right] [left] [up] [down] [C-left] [C-right] [C-up] [C-down] [M-left] [M-right] [M-up] [M-down] [next] [previous] [home] [end] [C-next] [C-previous] [C-home] [C-end] [M-next] [M-previous] [M-home] [M-end]))(or (global-key-binding [C-insert]) (global-set-key [C-insert] 'copy-region-as-kill))(or (global-key-binding [S-delete]) (global-set-key [S-delete] 'kill-region))(or (global-key-binding [S-insert]) (global-set-key [S-insert] 'yank))(provide 's-region);;; arch-tag: a471e912-18d7-4247-a29b-2100bca180ff;;; s-region.el ends here