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From: zsugabubus <zsugabubus@national.shitposting.agency>
To: "Peter Slížik" <peter.slizik@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid infinite recursion in ZLE widgets
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:25:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200923182558.nfokboenuhdypz45@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC-uhUD6-t3F0ZQuz1A_OWsFOJVj7L0dibNwbnDJurpq4-mZ+Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:34:50AM +0200, Peter Slížik wrote:
> I'd like to replicate the functionality found in some text editors - namely
> that if you press a single or double quote, the editor inserts two of them
> and places the cursor inside the pair.

What about simply modifying the buffer like this:

function insert-single-quotes() {
  LBUFFER+="'"
  RBUFFER="'$RBUFFER"
}

> zle -N insert-single-quotes
> bindkey "'" insert-single-quotes    # that's "_'_"

-- 
zsugabubus


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-23 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-23  8:34 Peter Slížik
2020-09-23 11:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-09-23 11:24   ` Peter Slížik
2020-09-23 11:29 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-09-23 11:32   ` Peter Slížik
2020-09-23 18:25 ` zsugabubus [this message]
2020-09-24  9:55   ` Peter Slížik
2020-09-25 14:19     ` Peter Slížik
2020-09-25 14:43       ` Peter Stephenson
2020-09-26  9:27         ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-09-26  9:40           ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-09-26 10:24             ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-09-26 10:31               ` Roman Perepelitsa

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