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CapitalizeWordOrKillRingSave

As a Mac Os X user, the only regret that I have about emacs is its lack of integration with the rest of the so user-friedly Mac desktop. In particular, I have a mental problem when switching apps, to or from emacs, that is, the change of the copy-and-paste key shortcuts. Even Mac Os X’s Terminal.app understands the “M-c” and “M-v” shortcuts, while in emacs, We’re stuck with those ugly “M-w” “C-y”.

As I don’t needed it (I have the “prior page” and “next page” keys on my keyboard) , I quickly replaced my “M-v” shortcut by a yank :

   (global-set-key (kbd "M-v") 'yank)

But I still had the “M-c” problem: I could not just bind M-c to kill-ring-save, because I really often use the traditional command bound to “M-c”: capitalize-word. So I wrote this little function in my .emacs, and it really made my life easier :

    (defun capitalize-word-or-kill-ring-save ()
      (interactive)
      (if mark-active
          (kill-ring-save (region-beginning) (region-end))
        (capitalize-word 1)
        )
    )
(global-set-key (kbd "M-c") 'capitalize-word-or-kill-ring-save)

I’m posting this here because I hope it will be useful to others. Feel free to add comments, or to move this snippet if there is a more appropriate place for it.

Cheers, – Gyom

This does not work in my Carbon Emacs because mark-active is always t. You probably have transient mode enabled. Here is a function you can use if transient mark mode is disabled:

(defun capitalize-word-or-kill-ring-save-transient-region ()
  (interactive)
  (if transient-mark-mode
      (kill-ring-save (region-beginning) (region-end))
    (capitalize-word (or current-prefix-arg 1))))

VagnJohansen

This means that you are one of those people able to remember where is the mark without having the active region highlighted ? Wow. (I didn’t even believe that you people existed ;-) ) – Gyom

PS: (way too long later) I realize that my comment above might be a bit rude. It was not my intention at all, and instead I was just plain impressed to learn that some people are so much above me in terms of emacsery ! – Gyom