Re: Free cursor positioning.

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 8/5/11 5:03 PM, PJ Weisberg wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Drew Adams<drew.adams@oracle.com>  wrote:
> > > In other words, ignore the position of<eoln>  when moving the
> > > point around, and add spaces where ever necessary to allow for
> > > completely free cursor motion in the buffer region. Then, when
> > > saving the file, automatically trim trailing spaces of each line.
> >
> > Again, `M-x picture-mode'.
>
> The thing is, when you're in picture mode, you're *not* in C mode,
> perl mode, or whatever mode you really want to be in.  He just wants a
> few features of picture mode to be on all the time.  Something like:
>
> (require 'picture)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<right>") 'picture-forward-column)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<up>") 'picture-move-up)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<down>") 'picture-move-down)
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)

Wrap it in define-global-minor-mode, and/or change the global bindings and hook
to locals and wrap that in define-minor-mode.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA