From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Taylor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: evaluate expression in scratch buffer Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:23:52 GMT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082673399 31566 80.91.224.253 (22 Apr 2004 22:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 23 00:36:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGmo3-0003gM-00 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:36:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGmk3-0006VJ-P1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:32:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!pd7tw3no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.119.234 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.71.223.147 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca Original-X-Trace: pd7tw3no 1082672632 24.71.223.147 (Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:23:52 MDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:23:52 MDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122601 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17889 William Payne wrote: > Hello, I want to evaluate the following expression: > (insert (prin1-to-string (w32-select-font))) > > I read that I should evaluate it in the scratch buffer, so I typed it in > there...but what do I do to get the actual evaluation to occur? In lisp-interaction-mode (which is what the *scratch* buffer uses), C-j is mapped to eval-print-last-sexp. Just position the point after the last closing parenthesis and press C-j. -- Andrew