Emacs: Cycle Hyphen/Lowline/Space ๐Ÿš€

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Here's a command that cycles hypen/lowline/space for word under cursor. (lowline is also known as underscore) (the command was known as xah-cycle-hyphen-underscore-space before 2021-08-09)

put this in your Emacs Init File:

(defun xah-cycle-hyphen-lowline-space (&optional Begin End)
  "Cycle hyphen/lowline/space chars in selection or inside quote/bracket or line, in that order.
After this command is called, press `xah-repeat-key' to repeat it.
The region to work on is by this order:
 1. if there is a selection, use that.
 2. If cursor is string quote or any type of bracket, and is within current line, work on that region.
 3. else, work on current line.

URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/elisp_change_space-hyphen_underscore.html'
Version: 2019-02-12 2022-10-20 2023-07-16"
  (interactive)
  ;; this function sets a property 'state. Possible values are 0 to length of xcharArray.
  (let* (xp1
         xp2
         (xcharArray ["-" "_" " "])
         (xn (length xcharArray))
         (xregionWasActive-p (region-active-p))
         (xnowState (if (eq last-command this-command) (get 'xah-cycle-hyphen-lowline-space 'state) 0))
         (xchangeTo (elt xcharArray xnowState)))
    (if (and Begin End)
        (setq xp1 Begin xp2 End)
      (if (region-active-p)
          (setq xp1 (region-beginning) xp2 (region-end))
        (let ((xskipChars "^\"<>(){}[]โ€œโ€โ€˜โ€™โ€นโ€บยซยปใ€Œใ€ใ€Žใ€ใ€ใ€‘ใ€–ใ€—ใ€Šใ€‹ใ€ˆใ€‰ใ€”ใ€•๏ผˆ๏ผ‰"))
          (skip-chars-backward xskipChars (line-beginning-position))
          (setq xp1 (point))
          (skip-chars-forward xskipChars (line-end-position))
          (setq xp2 (point))
          (push-mark xp1))))
    (save-excursion
      (save-restriction
        (narrow-to-region xp1 xp2)
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (while (re-search-forward (elt xcharArray (% (+ xnowState 2) xn)) (point-max) 1)
          (replace-match xchangeTo t t))))
    (when (or (string-equal xchangeTo " ") xregionWasActive-p)
      (goto-char xp2)
      (push-mark xp1)
      (setq deactivate-mark nil))
    (put 'xah-cycle-hyphen-lowline-space 'state (% (+ xnowState 1) xn)))
  (set-transient-map (let ((xkmap (make-sparse-keymap))) (define-key xkmap (or xah-repeat-key (kbd "DEL")) this-command) xkmap)))

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