From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copy whitespace-delimited text to variable Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:47:59 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86lgf1rbhc.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86zi3jqer1.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520578107 10800 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 06:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 06:48:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 07:48:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euBpH-0002iH-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:48:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euBrJ-0001hE-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 01:50:29 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:8DTz9ES0wU5cRJ9WYv3Z9teETHk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222018 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116136 Archived-At: Tim Johnson wrote: > :) I'm ready to fly ... and have already been > using subr-x thanks, Emanuel That was a fun piece of code to write, but in all honesty your own suggestion of modifying the syntax table is much better, especially if you can do it temporarily so it is used transparently and won't affect anything else. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573