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- Kill Things Easily in Emacs
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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
~~~~~~~~~
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. As a prefix key:
+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 f``: save file at point
-#. ``M-w l``: save list at point
+#. ``M-w l``: save list at point (enclosing sexp)
#. ``M-w d``: save defun at point
-#. ``M-w D``: save defun-name; works even when in a diff hunk
-#. ``M-w b``: save ``buffer-file-name`` or ``default-directory``
+#. ``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
+#. ``@``: 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 ``0..9``: expand/shrink selection
+#. ``+``, ``-`` and ``1..9``: expand/shrink selection
+#. ``0`` shrink the selection to the intitial size i.e. before any
+ expansion
#. ``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.
-See ``M-w l`` (save list at point) in action in `screenshot
+``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>`_:
.. figure:: http://i.imgur.com/8TNgPly.png
Install
~~~~~~~
-``easy-kill`` is available on `MELPA
+``easy-kill`` is part of GNU ELPA and is also available on `MELPA
<http://melpa.milkbox.net/#/easy-kill>`_.
-
+
Extensions
~~~~~~~~~~
``easy-kill-on-THING-NAME``. See ``easy-kill-on-buffer-file-name`` and
``easy-kill-on-url`` for examples.
+NEWS
+~~~~
+
+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
~~~~