From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seweryn Kokot Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: problem with elisp Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:57:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87od1u7w3z.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223491856 32729 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 18:50:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:50:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 20:51:53 2008 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 1Kne8O-0007R4-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:51:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kne7K-0002vf-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kne6q-0002nY-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kne6n-0002mn-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54275 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kne6n-0002mk-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42371 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kne6m-0005xY-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kne6k-0001MQ-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl ([217.173.199.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from sewkokot by nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:50:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nymOZ2iYcHjxANAgTtAYrU3yH+4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:58559 Archived-At: Hello, Could you explain to me why the following function doesn't work in the first version and when swapping line (let ((string-temp (make-temp-name ""))) with (let ((string-temp "@temp@")) it works correctly? (defun my-swap-string (string-a string-b) (interactive "sFirst string to swap: \nsSecond string to swap: ") (save-excursion (let ((string-temp (make-temp-name ""))) ; this doesn't work ;; (let ((string-temp "@temp@")) ; this works (goto-char (point-min)) (while (search-forward string-a nil t) (replace-match string-temp)) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (search-forward string-b nil t) (replace-match string-a)) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (search-forward string-temp nil t) (replace-match string-b))))) Thanks in advance. -- regards, Seweryn