-;;; misc.el --- basic editing commands for Emacs
+;;; misc.el --- some nonstandard basic editing commands for Emacs
-;; Maintainer: FSF
-;; Last-Modified: 31 Oct 1989
+;; Copyright (C) 1989, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+;; 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-;; Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Maintainer: FSF
+;; Keywords: convenience
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
-;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
;;; Code:
(+ n (point)))))))
(insert string)))
+;; Variation of `zap-to-char'.
+
+(defun zap-up-to-char (arg char)
+ "Kill up to, but not including ARG'th occurrence of CHAR.
+Case is ignored if `case-fold-search' is non-nil in the current buffer.
+Goes backward if ARG is negative; error if CHAR not found.
+Ignores CHAR at point."
+ (interactive "p\ncZap up to char: ")
+ (let ((direction (if (>= arg 0) 1 -1)))
+ (kill-region (point)
+ (progn
+ (forward-char direction)
+ (unwind-protect
+ (search-forward (char-to-string char) nil nil arg)
+ (backward-char direction))
+ (point)))))
+
+;; These were added with an eye to making possible a more CCA-compatible
+;; command set; but that turned out not to be interesting.
+
+(defun mark-beginning-of-buffer ()
+ "Set mark at the beginning of the buffer."
+ (interactive)
+ (push-mark (point-min)))
+
+(defun mark-end-of-buffer ()
+ "Set mark at the end of the buffer."
+ (interactive)
+ (push-mark (point-max)))
+
+(defun upcase-char (arg)
+ "Uppercasify ARG chars starting from point. Point doesn't move."
+ (interactive "p")
+ (save-excursion
+ (upcase-region (point) (progn (forward-char arg) (point)))))
+
+(defun forward-to-word (arg)
+ "Move forward until encountering the beginning of a word.
+With argument, do this that many times."
+ (interactive "p")
+ (or (re-search-forward (if (> arg 0) "\\W\\b" "\\b\\W") nil t arg)
+ (goto-char (if (> arg 0) (point-max) (point-min)))))
+
+(defun backward-to-word (arg)
+ "Move backward until encountering the end of a word.
+With argument, do this that many times."
+ (interactive "p")
+ (forward-to-word (- arg)))
+
+(provide 'misc)
+
+;;; arch-tag: 908f7884-c19e-4388-920c-9cfa425e449b
;;; misc.el ends here