From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quote marked region [utilities]
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:29:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838s67o9l7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGBYm9i6XjvifyzO@protected.localdomain> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300)
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > See combine-and-quote-strings. (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to
> > find something like that?)
>
> `combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not
> interactive function that works on region, and my function does not
> yet work on list of strings
But it's trivial to make use of combine-and-quote-strings, coupled
with buffer-substring, to produce a command that works on the region,
no?
> M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that
> way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker
> symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like:
That's much less efficient. Try this instead:
M-x apropos RET string quote RET
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-28 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-28 9:59 Quote marked region [utilities] Jean Louis
2021-03-28 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-28 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-28 10:21 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-28 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-28 10:38 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-28 10:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-28 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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