From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eval-last-sexp in other window Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:05:49 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87d4bzbfky.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238402489 30101 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2009 08:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 10:42:42 2009 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 1LoD4p-0001Um-OJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoD3S-0002fa-33 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp14-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NjExMWY5ZTk3OWZiMTIwZjYxZDIxOTY0MTI2MzI4NGZlMDBjNjI5Ng== Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Mar 2009 10:05:51 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1238400351 news-1.free.fr 9108 88.182.134.169:60126 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168095 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:63383 Archived-At: Bob Babcock writes: > Is there a way to have eval-last-sexp (typically bound to C-xC-e) run in a > different window? This would be convenient when developing a macro that > reformats text - I want the part of the macro I'm testing to be applied to > the file being reformatted, not to my macro. You may use M-: to apply a form to the current buffer. Otherwise: (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "The Other Buffer Name") (do-what-you-want)) C-x C-e -- __Pascal Bourguignon__