From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer Stengele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to sort words in a line Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:25:14 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87r6n7l41m.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184787639 32277 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2007 19:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 18 21:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBFO1-000145-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBFO1-0008So-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.isoc.lu!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: tomate.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX19729AIEaSZqsNI9sVV6vmL92+VOpBjB9DcbayAG2Qka5dJHlmQdAplVmcIxXb2WQQnB7wROUyus2YuOtysqapv/xYfsHtSaIk50PstaLC4y11MnBauAv8tMNDxNWVC/d47IOiHbjkIaQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:25:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+cB5pXLC3DyzqQyqTE7KbLrkt+5L6jSSm8N0jff5fhq2lY1j86Z1U4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BpX5sP4vwH+e7SSkC+PYNlEFKUA= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150197 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:45783 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl schrieb: > Rainer Stengele writes: > >> Wow! Thats quite a piece of code for a not-yet Lisp programmer. >> Coming from perl this would be a simple one-liner doing the work. > > Well, what is a one-liner? I mean, behind each one-liner in perl lies > probably a lot of code that implements that feature in perl. The > difference here is that the particular feature you wanted wasn't > implemented in Emacs. Yet. > >> Don't misunderstand me - I understand the power and flexibility of >> elisp in emacs. I just wonder if there is not a built in solution. > > Some day maybe someone will propose this command to be added to Emacs > and then it will be "built-in"... :) > > And, if you paste Pascal's example into your .emacs file it will, for > all practical purposes, built-in. agreed. for any more than trivial function this is the way to go. for "simple" functions I'd like to have them available "in the wild", finding an emacs and not having my .emacs with me ... comes down to decide whats a simlpe enough function to have it built in. BTW Thank everybody who is maintaining a wonderful EMACS!