[linux-audio-user] Re: snd-ls: help with selections

[Forest Bond]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:35:45AM +0100, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> Forest Bond:
> >I am using snd-ls 0.9.7.12.  I have searched through documentation, and 
> >fail to
> >see how I can define the end point of a selection started with C-space.  
> >Am I
> >missing something?  I would like to move the cursor into position, press
> >C-space, move the cursor to a new position, and press some key to have the
> >selection end there.  I am expecting to see a high-lighted selection at 
> >the end
> >of that process.
> 
> I don't know if theres anything built in, but its relatively easy to add a 
> keybinding to do it yourself.
> 
> To let C-space select both start and end of selection plus cancel it, put 
> the following lines into your .snd-ls file:
> 
> (bind-key (char->integer #\ ) 4
> 	  (let ((selstart #f))
> 	    (lambda ()
> 	      (let ((set-selstart! (lambda ()
> 				     (report-in-minibuffer (format #f 
> 				     "Selection start at ~A" (cursor)))
> 				     (set! selstart (cursor)))))
> 		(if (c-selection?)
> 		    (begin
> 		      (set! (selection-member? #t) #f)
> 		      (set-selstart!))
> 		    (if selstart
> 			(begin
> 			  (c-set-selection! (c-selected-sound) 0 (min 
> 			  selstart (cursor)) (max selstart (cursor)))
> 			  (report-in-minibuffer "")
> 			  (set! selstart #f))
> 			(set-selstart!)))))))
> (load-from-path "snd_conffile.scm")

Hmm.  I definately wouldn't have come up with that.  How do people normally
terminate a selection?  Or is it just always done with the mouse?  If so, why
have the default C-space binding at all?

-Forest
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