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COMMANDS

All commands used in NORMAL state

Movements

More than half of commands are about movement, they can be classified into 4 groups.

CHAR & WORD movement

Char & Word movement have explicit direction. Current selection’s direction will always be ignored.

meow-left/right

Move cursor left/right.

meow-left/right-expand

Selection type: expand char

Move cursor left/right and select, the selection can be expand by other char movements.

meow-prev/next

Move cursor to previous/next line.

meow-prev/next-expand

Selection type: expand char

Move cursor prev/next and select, the selection can be expand by other char movements.

meow-mark-word/symbol

Selection Type: expand word

Select current word/symbol(from its beginning to end), push the content into regexp-search-ring.

meow-next-word/symbol

Selection Type: no-expand word

Forward select to the word/symbol end.

meow-back-word/symbol

Selection type: no-expand word

Backward select to the word/symbol beginning.

common movements

For command in these group, reverse movement can be done with negative argument. Command will respect the direction if current selection has the same selection type(e.g. line vs line)

meow-expand-N

N: number from 0 to 9.

After each movement(except char movement), further position hint will be displayed inline. Use this command to expand quickly.

meow-visit

Selection type: no-expand visit

Read a regexp from minibuffer, search and select it. The input will be pushed into regexp-search-ring. So meow-search can be used for further searching with the same condition.

A list of occurred regexps will be provided for completion, the regexps will be sanitized by default. To display them in raw format, set meow-visit-sanitize-completion to nil.

meow-search

Selection type: no-expand visit

Search and select with the car of current regexp-search-ring.

If the contents of selection doesn’t match the regexp, will push it to regexp-search-ring before searching.

meow-line

Selection type: expand line

Select current line.

meow-block

Selection type: expand block

Select current block. Block means a matched parens(usually (...), [...] or {...}).

meow-to-block

Selection type: expand block

Select from current point, to the next block.

meow-find

Selection type: no-expand find

Select from current point, to the far end of a specific character.

meow-till

Selection type: no-expand till

Select from current point, to the near end of a specific character.

meow-join

Selection type: expand join

Select from previous non-empty line’s end to this line’s indentation.

thing-based selection

These commands are thing-based, each commands will prompt you a single key input.

Selection type: transient, means no way to expand.

thing	key
round paren	r
square paren	s
curly paren	c
string	g
paragraph	p
line	l
defun	d
buffer	b

meow-inner-of-thing

Select the inner part of thing. e.g. A Lisp expression without parentheses.

meow-bounds-of-thing

Select the whole thing.

meow-beginning-of-thing

Select from current point to the beginning of thing.

meow-end-of-thing

Select from current point to the end of thing.

Other Commands

toggle state

meow-insert

Switch to INSERT state at the beginning of region

meow-append

Switch to INSERT state at the end of region

meow-change

Delete current region and switch to INSERT state. When exit from INSERT state, inserted content will be selected.

This command support fallback behaviour, default to meow-change-char.

meow-change-char

Delete current character and switch to INSERT state.

meow-open-above

Insert a new line above, switch to INSERT state at that line.

meow-open-below

Insert a new line below, switch to INSERT state at that line.

modification

meow-kill

Kill current region.

Depending on the current selection type, there are two special cases:

• for line selection, the whole line plus the newline character will be added to the killed content;
• for join selection, selected region will be deleted, not killed.

This command supports fallback behaviour. Default to meow-C-k.

meow-C-k

Call the command on C-k.

meow-C-d (meow-delete)

Call the command on C-d.

meow-save

Copy.

This command support fallback behaviour.

meow-yank

Yank.

meow-yank-pop

Pop yank.

meow-replace

Replace current region with current kill.

This command support fallback behaviour.

other commands

meow-cancel-selection

Cancel selection.

This command support fallback behaviour, default to keyboard-quit.

meow-reverse

Reverse current selection.

This command support fallback behaviour.

meow-undo

Undo. Unlike builtin undo, this command will always cancel selection.

meow-undo-in-selection

Undo in current selection.

meow-pop-selection

Pop one selection.

This command support fallback behaviour, default to meow-pop-grab.

meow-grab

Turn current selection into secondary selection.

meow-sync-grab

Synchronize the contents of secondary selection to the contents of current region.

Additionally, grab current position(thus you can come back later with meow-pop-grab).

meow-swap-grab

Swap the contents of secondary selection with the contents of current region.

Additionally, grab current position.

meow-pop-grab

Cancel secondary selection.

This command is used as a fallback behaviour for meow-pop-selection by default.