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Re: hungry-delete in other modes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: hungry-delete in other modes |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:48:28 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I really like the hungry-delete minor mode that cc-mode provides, so I
> would like to have it in other modes, specifically Python mode.
For DEL at least, you can
(global-set-key [?\^?] 'backward-delete-char-untabify)
and even control it via buffer-local settings of
backward-delete-char-untabify-method.
> Is there any reason why hungry-delete mode (or subword mode or
> auto-newline mode for that matter) is so tightly coupled with cc-mode?
Because the CC-mode author wanted to provide the feature to all CC-mode
users and/or did not make the effort to try and submit this feature for
separate inclusion in Emacs.
> Would it be possible to decouple them and make the functionality
> available to other modes as a minor mode instead of them being just
> "minor-mode-like features" in cc-mode?
Of course it's possible. As a matter of fact we do have subword-mode,
as well as electric-layout-mode.
Stefan