Re: How to delay loading of packages (when eval-after-load does notapply)?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Raffaele,

Raffaele Ricciardi wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 01:11 PM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>> Now, wanting to apply the same mechanism for other slow parts of my .emacs
>> file, I'm stuck with this one[1]:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>     ;; add the ability to copy or cut the current line without marking it
>>     ;; (no active region) -- idea stolen from SlickEdit
>>     (defadvice kill-ring-save (before slickcopy activate compile)
>>       "When called interactively with no active region, copy the current
>>     line instead."
>>       (interactive
>>        (if mark-active (list (region-beginning) (region-end))
>>          (message "Copied the current line")
>>          (list (line-beginning-position)
>>                (line-beginning-position 2)))))
>>
>>     (defadvice kill-region (before slickcut activate compile)
>>       "When called interactively with no active region, kill the current
>>     line instead."
>>       (interactive
>>        (if mark-active (list (region-beginning) (region-end))
>>          (list (line-beginning-position)
>>                (line-beginning-position 2)))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WholeLineOrRegion
>
> Note the use of `use-region-p' instead of 'mark-active'.

I don't understand all the subtleties, except that it uses a function directly
defined in `simple.el', but it does a great job: no noticeable delay!

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,
Seb

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Sebastien Vauban