Re: kill-region defadvice

[Kevin Rodgers]

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Originally I did this by writing a new function that checked
> > if the mark was active. However, I think that using defadvice is a
> > better solution but I got stuck while trying to write it.
>
> No, it's not!  By using advice, you modify the kill-region function and
> risk that any command using it will backward-kill-word instead.

Just write the advice as

   (if (and (interactive-p) mark-active)
       ad-do-it
     (backward-kill-word 1))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA