[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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