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From: Matt Brown <mbrown83@ucsc.edu>
Subject: defining functions in emacs
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:40:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D69ED3.6070005@ucsc.edu> (raw)

Hi everyone

I wrote my first emacs function! Here's my function:


(defun read-environment ()
  (setq outbuf (generate-new-buffer "read-environment-outbuf"))
  (call-process "read-environment.sh" nil outbuf nil)
  (eval-buffer outbuf)
  (kill-buffer outbuf))

It uses read-environment.sh to generate a whole bunch of setenv lines, 
and then evaluates them.  Basically, it sources .bashrc and sets the new 
variables in emacs.  It works fine, but I want to be able to run it by
M-x read-environment

This doesn't work. I have to put
(read-environment)
into *scratch*, move to the ')' and do C-x C-e to evaluate it.  Pretty lame.

 From the digging around I've done, it seems like it should just work.  
Any ideas?  BTW, the defun is in my .emacs

Thanks
Matt

             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-24 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-24 21:40 Matt Brown [this message]
2006-01-24 23:13 ` defining functions in emacs Edward O'Connor
2006-01-25 16:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] <mailman.11.1138142928.2878.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-25  8:09 ` Tim X
2006-01-26  6:17 ` Barry Margolin

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