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1 | ;;; bandali-utils.el --- useful utilities -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- |
2 | ||
3 | ;; Copyright (C) 2020 Amin Bandali | |
4 | ||
5 | ;; Author: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> | |
6 | ;; Keywords: lisp, tools | |
7 | ||
8 | ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
9 | ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
10 | ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
11 | ;; (at your option) any later version. | |
12 | ||
13 | ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
14 | ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
15 | ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
16 | ;; GNU General Public License for more details. | |
17 | ||
18 | ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
19 | ;; along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
20 | ||
21 | ;;; Commentary: | |
22 | ||
23 | ;; A small collection of useful utilities used through my init files. | |
24 | ||
25 | ;;; Code: | |
26 | ||
27 | (defmacro b/setq-every (value &rest vars) | |
28 | "Set all the variables from VARS to value VALUE." | |
29 | (declare (indent defun) (debug t)) | |
30 | `(progn ,@(mapcar (lambda (x) (list 'setq x value)) vars))) | |
31 | ||
32 | (defun b/start-process (program &rest args) | |
33 | "Same as `start-process', but doesn't bother about name and buffer." | |
34 | (let ((process-name (concat program "_process")) | |
35 | (buffer-name (generate-new-buffer-name | |
36 | (concat program "_output")))) | |
37 | (apply #'start-process | |
38 | process-name buffer-name program args))) | |
39 | ||
40 | (defun b/dired-start-process (program &optional args) | |
41 | "Open current file with a PROGRAM." | |
42 | ;; Shell command looks like this: "program [ARGS]... FILE" (ARGS can | |
43 | ;; be nil, so remove it). | |
44 | (declare-function dired-get-file-for-visit "dired") | |
45 | (apply #'b/start-process | |
46 | program | |
47 | (remove nil (list args (dired-get-file-for-visit))))) | |
48 | ||
49 | (defun b/add-elisp-section () | |
50 | (interactive) | |
51 | (insert "\n") | |
52 | (forward-line -1) | |
53 | (insert "\n\f\n;;; ")) | |
54 | ||
55 | ;; (defvar b/fill-column 47 | |
56 | ;; "My custom `fill-column'.") | |
57 | ||
58 | (defconst b/asterism "* * *") | |
59 | ||
60 | (defun b/insert-asterism () | |
61 | "Insert a centred asterism." | |
62 | (interactive) | |
63 | (insert | |
64 | (concat | |
c9cc2425 | 65 | "\n" |
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66 | (make-string (floor (/ (- fill-column (length b/asterism)) 2)) |
67 | ?\s) | |
68 | b/asterism | |
c9cc2425 | 69 | "\n"))) |
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70 | |
71 | (defun b/no-mouse-autoselect-window () | |
72 | "Conveniently disable `focus-follows-mouse'. | |
73 | For disabling the behaviour for certain buffers and/or modes." | |
74 | (make-local-variable 'mouse-autoselect-window) | |
75 | (setq mouse-autoselect-window nil)) | |
76 | ||
77 | (defun b/kill-current-buffer () | |
78 | "Kill the current buffer." | |
79 | ;; also see https://redd.it/64xb3q | |
80 | (interactive) | |
81 | (kill-buffer (current-buffer))) | |
82 | ||
83 | (defun b/move-indentation-or-beginning-of-line (arg) | |
84 | "Move to the indentation or to the beginning of line." | |
85 | (interactive "^p") | |
86 | ;; (if (bolp) | |
87 | ;; (back-to-indentation) | |
88 | ;; (move-beginning-of-line arg)) | |
89 | (if (= (point) | |
90 | (progn (back-to-indentation) | |
91 | (point))) | |
92 | (move-beginning-of-line arg))) | |
93 | ||
94 | (defun b/join-line-top () | |
95 | "Like `join-line', but join next line to the current line." | |
96 | (interactive) | |
97 | (join-line 1)) | |
98 | ||
99 | (defun b/duplicate-line-or-region (&optional n) | |
100 | "Duplicate the current line, or region (if active). | |
101 | Make N (default: 1) copies of the current line or region." | |
102 | (interactive "*p") | |
103 | (let ((u-r-p (use-region-p)) ; if region is active | |
104 | (n1 (or n 1))) | |
105 | (save-excursion | |
106 | (let ((text | |
107 | (if u-r-p | |
108 | (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)) | |
109 | (prog1 (thing-at-point 'line) | |
110 | (end-of-line) | |
111 | (if (eobp) | |
112 | (newline) | |
113 | (forward-line 1)))))) | |
114 | (dotimes (_ (abs n1)) | |
115 | (insert text)))))) | |
116 | ||
117 | (provide 'bandali-utils) | |
118 | ;;; bandali-utils.el ends here |