Re: kill-region and white space

[Kevin Rodgers]

kgold wrote:
> I set mouse-3 to kill-region, and mouse-2 to mouse-yank-at-click.  So
> I can cut and paste using only the mouse.
>
> mouse-1 double click selects a word, so I'd like to be able to select,
> cut, and paste a word using the mouse.  However, the double click
> doesn't select the white space after the word.  I grabbed this code for
> kill-word to do what I want.  Is there something similar for mouse-1
> double click?
>
> (defadvice kill-word (after delete-horizontal-space activate)
>   "Delete trailing whitespace as well."
>   (if (looking-at "\\s ")
>       (just-one-space)))

Why not advise kill-region similarly, since that's what you've bound
mouse-3 to?

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Kevin Rodgers