From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "weber" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: function Qs Date: 24 Feb 2007 13:18:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172351923.424973.71530@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172353269 20059 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2007 21:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:41:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 24 22:41:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HL4dZ-0007rc-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HL4dZ-0002Sy-8D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:41:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.213.52.12 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172351939 26572 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2007 21:18:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:18:59 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=200.213.52.12; posting-account=pG57fA0AAADtQ-4h1MyvjXjZpSNZC0zj Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145843 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41447 Archived-At: On 24 fev, 18:07, Dan Bensen wrote: > Hi everybody. I have two questions, please: > > 1. It looks like set-mark-command and indent-region take arguments > when called from another function. Where's the documentation for > Emacs function signatures? They don't seem to be in the Emacs manual. > > 2. beginning-of-buffer, end-of-line, etc. all move point to the > specified position. Are there equivalent functions that return > the value of the corresponding position without side effects? > > -- > Danwww.prairienet.org/~dsb 1. Documentation for functions is easily accessed with Control-h f and then enter the name of the function. 2. You can always do a "save-excursion" before calling those functions... check it with C-h f as well. Maybe it would be better if you told us what to you want to accomplish... there might be an easier way. Cheers, weber