;;; s-region.el --- set region using shift key -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Copyright (C) 1994-1995, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Morten Welinder ;; Keywords: terminals ;; Favorite-brand-of-beer: None, I hate beer. ;; Obsolete-since: 24.1 ;; 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 3 of the License, 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. If not, see . ;;; 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-move' functions provided it is already bound to some command or other. Optional second argument MAP specifies keymap to add binding to, defaulting to 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) ;;; s-region.el ends here