selected for brilliant emacs selections
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I just discovered1 selected.el2 and am impressed: it is a perfect example of a simple idea that is enormously powerful. This is the kind of idea that leaves you wondering, “why haven’t I thought of that before?” Part of the simplicity is that you define all your own keys for your own usage. Below is my invocation so far, for things I use often. I’m also trying out the move-text3 script, though it isn’t part of my workflow yet.
(use-package selected
:commands selected-minor-mode
:init
(setq selected-org-mode-map (make-sparse-keymap))
:bind (:map selected-keymap
("<down>" . move-text-down)
("<up>" . move-text-up)
("/" . undo-in-region)
("c" . capitalize-region)
("d" . downcase-region)
("D" . delete-duplicate-lines)
("m" . apply-macro-to-region-lines)
("n" . move-text-down)
("p" . move-text-up)
("q" . selected-off)
("s" . sort-lines)
("u" . upcase-region)
("w" . count-words-region)
:map selected-org-mode-map
("t" . org-table-convert-region)
("-" . org-ctrl-c-minus))
:config (selected-global-mode))
Footnotes
1 Discovered from the excellent weekly “tips and tricks” thread. I have to store the good ones, though, because it’s hard to find them again in future weeks. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/mg98ki/weekly_tipstricketc_thread/gstteeo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
2 Selected repo on github is here: https://github.com/Kungsgeten/selected.el
3 In straight, move-text is a one-liner: (use-package move-text). It provides several (hopefully) useful commands I’m still getting used to.
