Dani Moncayo writes: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM Thierry Volpiatto wrote: >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> From: Dani Moncayo >> >> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:50:23 +0100 >> >> >> >> While analyzing source code files, I use (a lot) the functionality of >> >> keeping buffer >> >> positions in registers ((point-to-register) and (jump-to-register)). >> >> >> >> But I miss being able to display the current list of registers in a new buffer >> >> similar to the one generated for bookmarks with the command >> >> (bookmark-bmenu-list). >> >> >> >> And following the analogy, I'd like that new buffer to allow things like: >> >> * Delete one, several, or all registers. >> >> * Jump to the position pointed by some register, by clicking (or >> >> pressing ENTER) on its line. >> >> >> >> I'd very much like to have such a feature, and I think others would like it too. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Thierry, any comments or suggestions? >> >> It is easy to provide a delete register command for Emacs, however with >> the preview interface we can delete only one register at once: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> (customize-set-variable 'register-use-preview 'insist) >> >> (defun register-delete (register) >> (interactive (list (register-read-with-preview "Delete register: "))) >> (setq register-alist (delete (assoc register register-alist) >> register-alist))) >> >> (cl-defmethod register-command-info ((_command (eql register-delete))) >> (make-register-preview-info >> :types '(all) >> :msg "Delete register `%s'" >> :act 'modify >> :smatch t)) >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > I like that (register-delete) command. But I think it should error > out if I specify an already empty register. You can't (try to) delete an empty register with the preview. -- Thierry