[MSLUG] 'meta-paste'

Guillaume Cartier gcartier at metascoop.com
Thu Aug 19 17:41:40 EDT 2004


Hi everyone,

For reference, the idea came from Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL)
where they used to call it mouse-copy.

Guillaume Cartier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mslug-bounces at iro.umontreal.ca
> [mailto:mslug-bounces at iro.umontreal.ca]On Behalf Of Dominique Boucher
> Sent: August 19, 2004 4:27 PM
> To: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group
> Subject: [MSLUG] 'meta-paste'
>
>
> Guillaume Germain writes:
>  > Hello everyone,
>  >
>  > being jealous of Guillaume Cartier's Jazz system, I've implemented the
>  > "alt-click" functionality of Jazz into Emacs. It probably
> already existed
>  > somewhere with a better name, but I couldn't find it, out of means to
>  > describe it to a search engine.
>  >
>  > I've tentatively called it 'meta-paste' and I bind it to
> "Alt-Shift-Click"
>  > on my system.
>  >
>  > Hope someone finds this useful,
>
> Great!
>
> XEmacs already provides half of this. Simply double-click on an
> S-expression while holding the Control key. Unfortunately, you cannot
> replace a selection with it, though, just copy.
>
> Also, to emulate the exact Jazz feature, you should not replace any text
> if it is not selected.
>
> Thanks Guillaume!
>
> --
> Dominique Boucher
>
>
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