Re: Atomic extents and backspace.
Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Consider the following, as evaluated in *scratch*;
(progn
(require 'atomic-extents)
(setq our-extent (make-extent 1 3))
;; Make it such that point can never be within the extent.
(set-extent-property our-extent 'atomic t)
(goto-char 4)
(delete-backward-char))
Looks like the 'atomic property is not documented, even in
XEmacs 21.5 (beta20) "cilantro" (+CVS-20050314) [Lucid]
(i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Tue Mar 15 2005 on D5DC120J
Now, I’d like that delete-backward-char to delete the whole extent; has
anyone an idiom to do this, ideally avoiding wrapping or advising the
various backward-delete-char-like functions?
I don't.
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