This package tracks and creates bindings for region marking functions found in
thingatpt.el. The library adds on functionality that:
- Generates functions that marks things (per the parlance of
thingatpt.ellibrary. - Creates a mode-map and bindings to make it easy to mark (create a region around) a word, URL, file, number, symbol etc (see the usage section).
- Adds a number thing, which allows for traversing and marking numbers.
The variable mark-thing-at-choices defines a list of symbols for which to
make mark functions.
Add melpa to your package archive sources:
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)To install: M-x package-install mark-thing-at.
Activate and enable it in your ~/.emacs file:
;; this also creates mark commands for each thing
(require 'mark-thing-at)This binds all mark-thing-at functions to C-x m, which is the default
prefix. If you do not like this prefix, you can change it by customizing
mark-thing-at-keymap-prefix.
To do this, use: M-x customize-variable mark-thing-at-keymap-prefix. Once
you save the customization, the change immediately takes effect.
To get the current set of available mark functions and their bindings, use
mark-thing-at-keybindings-help. Assuming you followed the
install section and bound the prefix key to C-x m you can use
C-x m ? to get the listing of functions and their binding. Here's a list of
functions and what they mark:
| Binding | Mark Function | What's Marked |
|---|---|---|
| C-x m s | mark-symbol | Lisp symbol |
| C-x m n | mark-number | Integer or float number |
| C-x m l | mark-line-this | Entire line (not including prompt in a shell) |
| C-x l, C-x m i | mark-line | Eentire line with the newline |
| C-x m t | mark-list | List for the given language mode |
| C-M-@, C-M-SPC | mark-sexp | Lisp symbol expression |
| C-M-h | mark-defun | Function definition |
| C-x m f | mark-filename | File name |
| C-x m u | mark-url | Universal resource locator |
| M-@ | mark-word | Natural language word |
| C-x m c | mark-sentence | Natural language sentence |
| C-x m h | mark-whitespace | Tabs and spaces |
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