Re: Keybindings for () and kill-region

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On Feb 19, 12:28 pm, "Noah Tye" <n...@tyes.us> wrote:
> I've rebound C-w to backward-kill-word.  What's a good replacement
> binding for kill-region?  (I've tried C-c C-k, but that's used by the
> Python major mode.)
>
> Also, I'd like to bind C-J and C-K to '(' and ')'.  Is there a way to
> do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.

In fact. You don't need to rebind the key sequence.
Because c-w is a no-op when region selection is not activated.

so.. we can...

(defun backward-delete-word-if-not-in-region ()
  "hooker, backward-kill-word when nothing in selection"
  (interactive)
  (if (equal mark-active nil)
      (backward-kill-word 1)
    (kill-region (point) (mark-marker))))
(global-set-key "\C-w" 'backward-delete-word-if-not-in-region)