From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean-Christophe Helary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading from a buffer Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:38:33 +0900 Message-ID: <0884F1C1-94B7-4E69-B62C-C826A1E78637@traduction-libre.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.80.23.2.2\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38798"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Greg Hill Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 03 05:39:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jrCXa-0009zo-5U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2020 05:39:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrCXZ-0004ff-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrCXG-0004fP-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:2017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrCXE-0003qK-0a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:38:46 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 210.160.37.44 Original-Received: from [10.254.2.129] (unknown [210.160.37.44]) (Authenticated sender: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14DCC240002; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 03:38:37 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.80.23.2.2) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.193; envelope-from=jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org; helo=relay1-d.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/02 23:38:39 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123484 Archived-At: 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 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