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leoliu
Expand left (starting) edge of selection?
Hello!
I've got a question (not a bug report / feature request):
When I do M-w w I select a word. w then selects the next word to the right.
Is it possible to expand the selection to the left? (for example by using a different key-sequence)
(I think the answer is 'no', but wanted to check)
(First - thank you very much for the super-fast reply! :) )
That's close to what I"m asking about, but not quite.
Let's say that I've got the cursor in 'quick', in:
The qui|ck brown fox jumped
M-w w will select quick. Pressing + will result in quick brown being selected.
Is there anything I can press to expand the selection to be The quick brown?
@MikeTheGreat, I see. That is not impossible at the moment. You have to move to The and start over.
Hello! I had some time and was curious about adding this feature. How would you like me to approach that? (I'm asking both in technical terms (make a change, run the tests, get a code review, etc, etc) and in interpersonal terms (what's the best way to approach y'all with an idea like this?)
(On a related note - it looks like there's 3 unexpected test failures in the test.el file for commit 2a6309d98aa6b71df6bbbcdf15cab3187c521a6b - is this expected or am I doing something wrong?)(I'm guessing that I'm doing something wrong :) )
hi @MikeTheGreat, Sorry for my delay. See https://github.com/leoliu/easy-kill/issues/31. I can't find the culprit that is causing the failure so I intend to just drop support for 24.3. I don't know how to configure .travis.yml for that matter though.
Your change seems unrelated to #31. Moving left edge of word might be a bit tricky to get right.
Hi @leoliu! No worries about the delay. This is all for fun and personal utility, right? :)
My change ( #36 ) is unrelated to #31.
I made the change (which allows me to expand/shrink the left ('backward') edge) to my files and figured that it would be nice to share the change here, in case anyone else wanted to use it.