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2.3.2 Edit Menu Features ¶

Anju makes the following modifications to the main menu bar Edit menu:

• Adds “Search in Files…” to the Search sub-menu.
• Adds the “Transpose ⇄” sub-menu of commands to transpose different text quantities.
• Adds the “Move Text” sub-menu to move different text quantities.
• Adds the “Delete” sub-menu to delete different text quantities.
• Adds the menu item “Flush Lines…”.
• Adds the menu item “Keep Lines…”.
• Adds the menu item “Duplicate”.

On the macOS NS variant of Emacs, the following menu items are added.

• “Colors” - display the macOS system color picker dialog.
• “Emoji & Symbols” - display the macOS system Emoji & Symbols dialog.

The commands provided by the above additions to the Edit menu are shown below.

• Search
  • Search in Files… (rgrep)
• Transpose ⇄
  • Characters (transpose-chars)
  • Words (transpose-words)
  • Lines (transpose-lines)
  • Sentences (transpose-sentences)
  • Paragraphs (transpose-paragraphs)
  • Regions (transpose-regions)
  • Balanced Expressions (sexps) (transpose-sexps)
• Move Text
  • Word → (casual-editkit-move-word-forward)
  • Word ← (casual-editkit-move-word-backward)
  • Sentence → (casual-editkit-move-sentence-forward)
  • Sentence ← (casual-editkit-move-sentence-backward)
  • Balanced Expression (sexp) → (casual-editkit-move-sexp-forward)
  • Balanced Expression (sexp) ← (casual-editkit-move-sexp-backward)
• Delete
  • Join Line (join-line)
  • Just One Space (just-one-space)
  • Horizontal Space (delete-horizontal-space)
  • Pair (delete-pair)
  • Blank Lines (delete-blank-lines)
  • Whitespace Cleanup (whitespace-cleanup)
  • Trailing Whitespace (delete-trailing-whitespace)
  • Zap up to… (zap-up-to-char)
  • Zap to… (zap-to-char)
• Flush Lines… (flush-lines)
• Keep Lines… (keep-lines)
• Duplicate (duplicate-dwim)
• Colors (ns-popup-color-panel) (only on macOS NS)
• Emoji & Symbols (ns-do-show-character-palette) (only on macOS NS)

Note that a menu command can be run again immediately after it has been issued using the repeat command (binding C-x z). This is useful when using the move text commands.

These modifications are optional. For more detail, see Edit Menu Customization.