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Kill & Mark Things Easily in Emacs
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Provide commands easy-kill and easy-mark to let users kill or
mark things easily.
Comments, bug reports and patches are highly appreciated.
easy-kill
``easy-kill`` is a drop-in replacement for ``kill-ring-save``. To Use:
::
(global-set-key [remap kill-ring-save] 'easy-kill)
After this configuration, ``M-w`` serves as both a command and a
prefix key for other commands. ``M-w`` alone saves in the order of
active region, url, email and finally current line (See
``easy-kill-try-things``). As a prefix key:
#. ``M-w w``: save word at point
#. ``M-w s``: save sexp at point
#. ``M-w l``: save list at point (enclosing sexp)
#. ``M-w d``: save defun at point
#. ``M-w D``: save current defun name
#. ``M-w f``: save file at point
#. ``M-w b``: save ``buffer-file-name`` or ``default-directory``.
``-`` changes the kill to the directory name, ``+`` to full name
and ``0`` to basename.
The following keys modify the selection:
#. ``@``: append selection to previous kill and exit. For example,
``M-w d @`` will append current function to last kill.
#. ``C-w``: kill selection and exit
#. ``+``, ``-`` and ``1..9``: expand/shrink selection
#. ``0`` shrink the selection to the initial size i.e. before any
expansion
#. ``SPC``: cycle through things in ``easy-kill-alist``
#. ``C-SPC``: turn selection into an active region
#. ``C-g``: abort
#. ``?``: help
For example, ``M-w w`` saves current word, repeat ``w`` to expand the
kill to include the next word. ``5`` to include the next 5 words etc.
The other commands also follow this pattern.
``+``/``-`` does expanding/shrinking according to the thing selected.
So for ``word`` the expansion is word-wise, for ``line`` line-wise,
for ``list`` or ``sexp``, list-wise.
``list-wise`` expanding/shrinking work well in lispy modes (elisp,
Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure etc.), smie-based modes (Prolog, SML,
Modula2, Shell, Ruby, Octave, CSS, SQL etc.), Org mode, Nxml mode and
Js2 mode.
To copy the enclosing list in lispy modes, I used to do a lot of
``C-M-u C-M-SPC M-w``. Now the key sequence is replaced by ``M-w l``
(save list at point) as shown in `screenshot
<http://i.imgur.com/8TNgPly.png>`_:
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:alt: ``M-w l``
easy-mark
easy-mark is similar to easy-kill but marks the region
immediately. It can be a handy replacement for mark-sexp allowing
+/- to do list-wise expanding/shrinking and marks the whole
sexp even when in the middle of one. ::
(global-set-key [remap mark-sexp] 'easy-mark)
Install
``easy-kill`` is part of GNU ELPA and is also available on `MELPA
<https://melpa.org/#/easy-kill>`_.
Extensions
New things can be defined by following package thingatpt.el's
convention, or by defining new functions named like
easy-kill-on-THING-NAME. See easy-kill-on-buffer-file-name and
easy-kill-on-url for examples.
NEWS
0.9.4
+++++
#. New user variable ``easy-kill-unhighlight-key``.
#. key ``D`` selects current defun name.
#. Key ``SPC`` selects things in ``easy-kill-alist`` in turn.
0.9.3
+++++
#. Key ``?`` in ``easy-kill`` or ``easy-mark`` prints help info.
#. ``M-w l`` can select the enclosing string.
#. ``easy-mark`` learns exchanging point & mark.
#. Key ``0`` now sets the selection to its initial size before any
expansion.
#. ``M-w l``, ``M-w s`` and list-wise ``+/-`` now work in Org mode.
0.9.2
+++++
#. ``-`` can move pass the first selection.
#. ``+``/``-`` on ``sexp`` no longer change ``thing`` to ``list``
#. Mouse over the selection now shows description.
#. Echo js2 node name.
#. Append now uses sensible separator (customisable via
``easy-kill-alist``).
#. The format of easy-kill-alist has changed. The old ``(CHAR .
THING)`` format is still supported but may be removed in future.
Bugs