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: Quote marked region [utilities] Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:38:57 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83blb3oamh.fsf@gnu.org> <838s67o9l7.fsf@gnu.org> 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="26892"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 12:39:49 2021 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 1lQSph-0006uD-Bi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:39:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37888 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSpg-0007XE-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:39:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59476) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSpN-0007X6-B2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:56229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSpL-000775-Iy; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.58]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E079.0000000060605CDB.00002AD6; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 03:39:22 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <838s67o9l7.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no 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:128739 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2021-03-28 13:30]: > > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300 > > From: Jean Louis > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > > See combine-and-quote-strings. (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to > > > find something like that?) > > > > `combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not > > interactive function that works on region, and my function does not > > yet work on list of strings > > But it's trivial to make use of combine-and-quote-strings, coupled > with buffer-substring, to produce a command that works on the region, > no? > > > M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that > > way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker > > symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like: > > That's much less efficient. Try this instead: > > M-x apropos RET string quote RET Definitely, I have to use apropos.