Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region

[Le Wang]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:

I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en dash
is inserted before the region and after it. Is this hard to implement?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

(defun wrap-region-maybe (arg)
  "wrap region in char or run `self-insert-command' if no region"
  (interactive "*p")
  (if (use-region-p)
      (let ((r-beg (region-beginning))
            (r-end (+ arg (region-end))))
        (goto-char r-beg)
        (self-insert-command arg)
        (goto-char r-end)
        (self-insert-command arg))
    (self-insert-command arg)))

-- 
Le