From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
To: Greg Hill <gregoryohill@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reading from a buffer
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:38:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0884F1C1-94B7-4E69-B62C-C826A1E78637@traduction-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADSjfO4QoA=5Q02u8G=PVCABzU6OHJOf3r6=pxc8Uq34yUe3LQ@mail.gmail.com>
As Jakub mentioned, did you check the f.el library ?
https://github.com/rejeep/f.el
> On Jul 2, 2020, at 5:19, Greg Hill <gregoryohill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The function 'buffer-substring-no-properties' is certainly a step in the
> right direction, thank you. I've now got it down to:
> (setq count (car (read-from-string (buffer-substring-no-properties (mark)
> (point)))))
> But I'm nothing short of astonished that there is not yet anything in
> standard Emacs Lisp that is comparable to a formatted read-from-buffer
> statement in a more conventional programming language like Fortran or C.
> I'm imagining something akin to '(insert (format...' but working in the
> opposite direction, something like '(unformat (read...'. Perhaps I'll just
> create my own library of intuitive and easy-to-use buffer I/O functions
> since I expect to be doing quite a bit of this sort of thing in the future.
--
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
http://mac4translators.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 20:19 Reading from a buffer Greg Hill
2020-07-01 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-02 0:39 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 3:38 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2020-07-03 6:33 ` Greg Hill
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2020-07-01 19:12 Greg Hill
2020-07-01 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-01 19:20 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-01 19:21 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-07-01 19:21 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
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