lisp/delsel.el

   1 ;;; delsel.el --- delete selection if you insert
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
   4 ;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6 ;; Author: Matthieu Devin <devin@lucid.com>
   7 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   8 ;; Created: 14 Jul 92
   9 ;; Keywords: convenience emulations
  10
  11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  12
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  27
  28 ;;; Commentary:
  29
  30 ;; This file makes the active region be pending delete, meaning that
  31 ;; text inserted while the region is active will replace the region contents.
  32 ;; This is a popular behavior of personal computers text editors.
  33
  34 ;; Interface:
  35
  36 ;; Commands which will delete the selection need a 'delete-selection
  37 ;; property on their symbols; commands which insert text but don't
  38 ;; have this property won't delete the selection.  It can be one of
  39 ;; the values:
  40 ;;  'yank
  41 ;;      For commands which do a yank; ensures the region about to be
  42 ;;      deleted isn't yanked.
  43 ;;  'supersede
  44 ;;      Delete the active region and ignore the current command,
  45 ;;      i.e. the command will just delete the region.
  46 ;;  'kill
  47 ;;      `kill-region' is used on the selection, rather than
  48 ;;      `delete-region'.  (Text selected with the mouse will typically
  49 ;;      be yankable anyhow.)
  50 ;;  non-nil
  51 ;;      The normal case: delete the active region prior to executing
  52 ;;      the command which will insert replacement text.
  53
  54 ;;; Code:
  55
  56 ;;;###autoload
  57 (defalias 'pending-delete-mode 'delete-selection-mode)
  58
  59 ;;;###autoload
  60 (define-minor-mode delete-selection-mode
  61   "Toggle Delete Selection mode.
  62 With prefix ARG, turn Delete Selection mode on if ARG is
  63 positive, off if ARG is not positive.
  64
  65 When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
  66 enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
  67 active.  Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of
  68 any selection."
  69   :global t :group 'editing-basics
  70   (if (not delete-selection-mode)
  71       (remove-hook 'pre-command-hook 'delete-selection-pre-hook)
  72     (add-hook 'pre-command-hook 'delete-selection-pre-hook)
  73     (transient-mark-mode t)))
  74
  75 (defun delete-active-region (&optional killp)
  76   (if killp
  77       (kill-region (point) (mark))
  78     (delete-region (point) (mark)))
  79   t)
  80
  81 (defun delete-selection-pre-hook ()
  82   (when (and delete-selection-mode transient-mark-mode mark-active
  83              (not buffer-read-only))
  84     (let ((type (and (symbolp this-command)
  85                      (get this-command 'delete-selection))))
  86       (condition-case data
  87           (cond ((eq type 'kill)
  88                  (delete-active-region t))
  89                 ((eq type 'yank)
  90                  ;; Before a yank command, make sure we don't yank the
  91                  ;; head of the kill-ring that really comes from the
  92                  ;; currently active region we are going to delete.
  93                  ;; That would make yank a no-op.
  94                  (when (and (string= (buffer-substring-no-properties (point) (mark))
  95                                      (car kill-ring))
  96                             (fboundp 'mouse-region-match)
  97                             (mouse-region-match))
  98                    (current-kill 1))
  99                  (delete-active-region))
 100                 ((eq type 'supersede)
 101                  (let ((empty-region (= (point) (mark))))
 102                    (delete-active-region)
 103                    (unless empty-region
 104                      (setq this-command 'ignore))))
 105                 (type
 106                  (delete-active-region)
 107                  (if (and overwrite-mode (eq this-command 'self-insert-command))
 108                    (let ((overwrite-mode nil))
 109                      (self-insert-command (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg))
 110                      (setq this-command 'ignore)))))
 111         (file-supersession
 112          ;; If ask-user-about-supersession-threat signals an error,
 113          ;; stop safe_run_hooks from clearing out pre-command-hook.
 114          (and (eq inhibit-quit 'pre-command-hook)
 115               (setq inhibit-quit 'delete-selection-dummy))
 116          (signal 'file-supersession (cdr data)))
 117         (text-read-only
 118          ;; This signal may come either from `delete-active-region' or
 119          ;; `self-insert-command' (when `overwrite-mode' is non-nil).
 120          ;; To avoid clearing out `pre-command-hook' we handle this case
 121          ;; by issuing a simple message.  Note, however, that we do not
 122          ;; handle all related problems: When read-only text ends before
 123          ;; the end of the region, the latter is not deleted but any
 124          ;; subsequent insertion will succeed.  We could avoid this case
 125          ;; by doing a (setq this-command 'ignore) here.  This would,
 126          ;; however, still not handle the case where read-only text ends
 127          ;; precisely where the region starts: In that case the deletion
 128          ;; would succeed but the subsequent insertion would fail with a
 129          ;; text-read-only error.  To handle that case we would have to
 130          ;; investigate text properties at both ends of the region and
 131          ;; skip the deletion when inserting text is forbidden there.
 132          (message "Text is read-only") (ding))))))
 133
 134 (put 'self-insert-command 'delete-selection t)
 135 (put 'self-insert-iso 'delete-selection t)
 136
 137 (put 'yank 'delete-selection 'yank)
 138 (put 'clipboard-yank 'delete-selection 'yank)
 139 (put 'insert-register 'delete-selection t)
 140
 141 (put 'delete-backward-char 'delete-selection 'supersede)
 142 (put 'backward-delete-char-untabify 'delete-selection 'supersede)
 143 (put 'delete-char 'delete-selection 'supersede)
 144
 145 (put 'newline-and-indent 'delete-selection t)
 146 (put 'newline 'delete-selection t)
 147 (put 'open-line 'delete-selection 'kill)
 148
 149 ;; This is very useful for cancelling a selection in the minibuffer without
 150 ;; aborting the minibuffer.
 151 (defun minibuffer-keyboard-quit ()
 152   "Abort recursive edit.
 153 In Delete Selection mode, if the mark is active, just deactivate it;
 154 then it takes a second \\[keyboard-quit] to abort the minibuffer."
 155   (interactive)
 156   (if (and delete-selection-mode transient-mark-mode mark-active)
 157       (setq deactivate-mark t)
 158     (abort-recursive-edit)))
 159
 160 (define-key minibuffer-local-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit)
 161 (define-key minibuffer-local-ns-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit)
 162 (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit)
 163 (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit)
 164 (define-key minibuffer-local-isearch-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit)
 165
 166 (defun delsel-unload-function ()
 167   "Unload the Delete Selection library."
 168   (define-key minibuffer-local-map "\C-g" 'abort-recursive-edit)
 169   (define-key minibuffer-local-ns-map "\C-g" 'abort-recursive-edit)
 170   (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map "\C-g" 'abort-recursive-edit)
 171   (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-map "\C-g" 'abort-recursive-edit)
 172   (define-key minibuffer-local-isearch-map "\C-g" 'abort-recursive-edit)
 173   (dolist (sym '(self-insert-command self-insert-iso yank clipboard-yank
 174                  insert-register delete-backward-char backward-delete-char-untabify
 175                  delete-char newline-and-indent newline open-line))
 176     (put sym 'delete-selection nil))
 177   ;; continue standard unloading
 178   nil)
 179
 180 (provide 'delsel)
 181
 182 ;; arch-tag: 1e388890-1b50-4ed0-9347-763b1343b6ed
 183 ;;; delsel.el ends here