emacs/lisp/delsel.el

;;; delsel.el --- delete selection if you insert

;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Matthieu Devin <devin@lucid.com>
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Created: 14 Jul 92

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;;; Commentary:

;; This file makes the active region be pending delete, meaning that
;; text inserted while the region is active will replace the region contents.
;; This is a popular behavior of personal computers text editors.

;; Interface:

;; Commands which will delete the selection need a 'delete-selection
;; property on their symbols; commands which insert text but don't
;; have this property won't delete the selction.  It can be one of
;; the values:
;;  'yank
;;      For commands which do a yank; ensures the region about to be
;;      deleted isn't yanked.
;;  'supersede
;;      Delete the active region and ignore the current command,
;;      i.e. the command will just delete the region.
;;  'kill
;;      `kill-region' is used on the selection, rather than
;;      `delete-region'.  (Text selected with the mouse will typically
;;      be yankable anyhow.)
;;  non-nil
;;      The normal case: delete the active region prior to executing
;;      the command which will insert replacement text.

;;; Code:

;;;###autoload
(defalias 'pending-delete-mode 'delete-selection-mode)

;;;###autoload
(defun delete-selection-mode (&optional arg)
  "Toggle Delete Selection mode.
With prefix ARG, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if ARG is
positive.

When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
active.  Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of
any selection."
  (interactive "P")
  (setq delete-selection-mode (if arg
				  (> (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0)
				(not delete-selection-mode)))
  (if (not delete-selection-mode)
      (remove-hook 'pre-command-hook 'delete-selection-pre-hook)
    (add-hook 'pre-command-hook 'delete-selection-pre-hook)
    (transient-mark-mode t)))

;;;###autoload
(defcustom delete-selection-mode nil
  "Toggle Delete Selection mode.
See command `delete-selection-mode'.
This variable should be set only with \\[customize], which is equivalent
to using the function `delete-selection-mode'."
  :set (lambda (symbol value)
	 (delete-selection-mode (or value 0)))
  :initialize 'custom-initialize-default
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'editing-basics
  :require 'delsel)

(defun delete-active-region (&optional killp)
  (if killp
      (kill-region (point) (mark))
    (delete-region (point) (mark)))
  (setq mark-active nil)
  (run-hooks 'deactivate-mark-hook)
  t)

(defun delete-selection-pre-hook ()
  (when (and delete-selection-mode transient-mark-mode mark-active
	     (not buffer-read-only))
    (let ((type (and (symbolp this-command)
		     (get this-command 'delete-selection))))
      (cond ((eq type 'kill)
	     (delete-active-region t))
	    ((eq type 'yank)
	     ;; Before a yank command,
	     ;; make sure we don't yank the same region
	     ;; that we are going to delete.
	     ;; That would make yank a no-op.
	     (when (string= (buffer-substring-no-properties (point) (mark))
			    (car kill-ring))
	       (current-kill 1))
	     (delete-active-region))
	    ((eq type 'supersede)
	     (delete-active-region)
	     (setq this-command 'ignore))
	    (type
	     (delete-active-region))))))

(put 'self-insert-command 'delete-selection t)
(put 'self-insert-iso 'delete-selection t)

(put 'yank 'delete-selection 'yank)
(put 'clipboard-yank 'delete-selection 'yank)
(put 'insert-register 'delete-selection t)

(put 'delete-backward-char 'delete-selection 'supersede)
(put 'backward-delete-char-untabify 'delete-selection 'supersede)
(put 'delete-char 'delete-selection 'supersede)

(put 'newline-and-indent 'delete-selection t)
(put 'newline 'delete-selection t)
(put 'open-line 'delete-selection 'kill)

(put 'insert-parentheses 'delete-selection t)

;; This is very useful for cancelling a selection in the minibuffer without 
;; aborting the minibuffer.
(defun minibuffer-keyboard-quit ()
  "Abort recursive edit.
In Delete Selection mode, if the mark is active, just deactivate it;
then it takes a second \\[keyboard-quit] to abort the minibuffer."
  (interactive)
  (if (and delete-selection-mode transient-mark-mode mark-active)
      (setq deactivate-mark t)
    (abort-recursive-edit)))

(define-key minibuffer-local-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit) 
(define-key minibuffer-local-ns-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit) 
(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit) 
(define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit) 
(define-key minibuffer-local-isearch-map "\C-g" 'minibuffer-keyboard-quit) 

(provide 'delsel)

;; This is the standard way mechanism to put the mode into effect
;; if delete-selection-mode has already been set to t
;; when this file is loaded.
(when delete-selection-mode
  (delete-selection-mode t))

;;; delsel.el ends here