From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: insert string into buffer Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:39:24 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <44D1DC97.3030104@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154612433 7817 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2006 13:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 15:40:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQx-00088s-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQw-00018n-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQi-00018M-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQh-00018A-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQh-000187-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G8dU2-0002nM-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G8dQa-00084L-TW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:39:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <44D1DC97.3030104@speakeasy.net> 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:36437 Archived-At: ken wrote: > Which function is used to insert a string, specified by its variable > name, into a buffer? insert: (insert string-variable) > Also, function is used to insert a list, specified by its variable name, > into a buffer? A list of what? If it's a list of strings: (apply 'insert list-of-strings) -- Kevin