Am 02.12.2011 01:20, schrieb Lex Trotman:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Meyer 3m.me...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure. I want to be able to select text, and then insert a character (e.g.
an apostrophe) before and after the selection just by pressing the
apostrophe key. Since the normal behavior when a character is pressed while
text is selected is to delete the text and insert a character, I need to
know when that happens - then I could undo the delete and insert my
characters. If it was two separate events though - delete then insert - I
won't want to do anything.
I have it working now, but it seems awfully hackish: when one of the
characters I might insert is pressed, I store the current position of the
cursor and undo the last event. If the new cursor position is the same
place as the old one, then it was a overwrite event. Otherwise, it was
delete then insert.
So, any ideas for how I could do this would be much appreciated!
I assume you are writing a plugin.
You should use the keybinding system to capture the apostrophe before
it goes to scintilla so you can detect and do anything you want.
You could also use editor_nodify signal [1]. E.g. used in GeanyLaTeX
plugin for doing something similar.
Cheers,
Frank
[1]
http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/pluginsignals_8c.html#af601d8beb39bf8082ddd1c09c74ce892
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