From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading from a buffer Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:20:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87sgebqbyq.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36705"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4vrVHYpuaZsFQ/tMgbNfYA9WzLA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 01 21:21:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jqiI1-0009RS-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:21:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35894 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqiI0-0005MD-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqiHP-0005KL-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:47956 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqiHN-0008Ez-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jqiHK-0008d7-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:20:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/01 13:23:26 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123462 Archived-At: Greg Hill wrote: > I've pretty well mastered the process of *writing > to* a buffer using *insert* and *format*, but > I haven't been able to find any equally easy way to > read that same information back. I've hacked > together a workaround using *copy-to-register*, > *get-register* and *read-from-string*, but surely > there must be a more straightforward approach than > that. I've searched and searched through all the > documentation and have come up with nothing for > doing a simple formatted read from buffer. > Any suggestions? (buffer-substring ...) (with-current-buffer ".emacs" (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)) ) (buffer-string) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal