From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copying a list for insertion Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:32:20 +0300 Message-ID: References: <29DGE8Qruce2adT4VliRagiL6uTUNrtFSw92oYfSUXNYb9vqBg9NghQyFGA13qrkl27rlPcTk0fofL30WVeSoRAhOzXr4KllyNUds2sYGxI=@protonmail.com> <9TXhRJBFzT6P6K1nhsFI3560kqLqmeeNT-AuXamhhGYaCHKQxVOZAt1SM7YoZCzzqR6IBo4G_u6ZtUV3qzkbxHhp5qk9b7g3qZXL41FraaQ=@protonmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34964"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 21:50:59 2022 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 1oly2k-0008tM-I8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:50:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olxU9-0001gv-EC; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olvss-0006yG-G1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1olvsq-0001KK-LM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.7.218]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055DBB.000000006352D7AF.000041B1; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:32:30 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Heime , Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140249 Archived-At: * Heime [2022-10-21 20:26]: > > Have done so, but doing M-w does not insert the string. > > prin1-to-string inserts double quotes. Because my list is composed of string > items only, I want to exclude tho double quotes on each list entry. M-w is to kill, C-y is to yank So you wish to have list like '("Hello" "There") and to get '(Hello There)? (kill-new (format "%s" '("Hello" "There"))) (Hello There) -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/