Learn Emacs: Use Defadvice to Modify Functions

Jun 22nd, 2011 • Permalink

I use defadvice to change the behavior of zap-to-char. In it’s original form, zap-to-char deletes all characters up to and including the matching character. I prefer it to behave more like zap-up-to-but-not-including-char. It’s more intuitive to me.

;; make zap-to-char act like zap-up-to-char (defadvice zap-to-char (after my-zap-to-char-advice (arg char) activate) "Kill up to the ARG'th occurence of CHAR, and leave CHAR. The CHAR is replaced and the point is put before CHAR." (insert char) (forward-char -1))

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Learn Emacs: Use Defadvice to Modify Functions

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