From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Any function in Emacs to unquote html's " , < , > , & etc Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:07:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288476473 18805 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2010 22:07:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:07:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 31 00:07:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCJaU-0004Hb-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:07:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PCJaT-0001g9-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40730 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PCJaM-0001g2-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PCJaJ-0004Es-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:35242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PCJaJ-0004Eo-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so1478879vws.0 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:07:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=BiNBfA9lFP1/FOyYpynweClDE3r6wCXxV43ast8hwQE=; b=MDjO02CNWasFh5krig2dn8S/ZZFi1Fz7cB8G1xCnDn427XWyUHzfIO3qBbfjKUo8Mm bk6/55el3HThc49Upw+CD0r2oe0VX6wn9i5dufdMzr5zlHky1UNjKf54ire1IlV29Omh o0TI+MAWQUSJyePZzcPssbPRgq8xFA5PcRG0Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=f0v10nlRRy66MpjyIz+4cebfWbri031aq5fu3zyVLB3/fAnpw7KHrIXsK1Olmes0X1 6OGkq5c9K30tdM5pB9NdoeVBTCM/B6ch5/I2lfdidfAQgilu4tCf/SvZZEt1SBjuJntA jflcqVQsi3x+U31iLMn7g9pFgBtL0po1q+uCw= Original-Received: by 10.229.99.76 with SMTP id t12mr3466050qcn.70.1288476453903; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.224.199 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:07:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132205 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Lennart Borgman writes: > >> Is there any function in Emacs to do this? > > There's `mm-url-decode-entities-string' and related functions... Thanks. That was what I was looking for. However it is very hard to find it unless you happen to know about it (or someone who knows is helpful and tells you ;-) ). Is there anything we can do about this? (Both for this specific case, such a function is probably often wanted when manupulating html. And in the general case - i.e. apropos is not of much help here.)