From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "james" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: function Qs Date: 24 Feb 2007 20:43:11 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172378591.570457.233540@q2g2000cwa.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 1172382041 18119 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2007 05:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 25 06:40:34 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 1HLC7c-0004Jd-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLC7b-0002Ah-Q4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.103.53.17 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172378598 24584 127.0.0.1 (25 Feb 2007 04:43:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:43:18 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.103.53.17; posting-account=QasW5A0AAAAxx4roVdpL6V55nt6Y9qFG Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145849 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:41453 Archived-At: On Feb 24, 9:19 pm, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > > I searched apropos for point, and I can't find a point-end-of-line or > equivalent. Is there such a function? If not, do you know a way I > could get the full text of the current line? > > Matthew Flaschen apropos only searches interactive functions (those that can be called by M-x) by default... but if you give it a parameter: C-u C-h a point (I just discovered this myself by: C-h f apropos) Looks like what you're looking for is point-at-bol and point-at-eol: (setq line-string (buffer-substring (point-at-bol) (point-at-eol)))