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: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:20:40 -0600 Message-ID: References: <5-WdnWGdu7Z1AH7UnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <3LydnaCSF_RDIXnUnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239855673 1190 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2009 04:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:21:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 16 06:22:32 2009 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 1LuJ7P-0007NO-Or for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:22:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJ60-0007bs-Qs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJ5f-0007aJ-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJ5Y-0007Ye-Vq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41511 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJ5Y-0007YX-SC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:20:36 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42442 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LuJ5Y-0001b6-Ie for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:20:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJ5U-0002JR-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:20:32 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:20:32 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:20:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) In-Reply-To: <3LydnaCSF_RDIXnUnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:63769 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > (defalias 'xhc 'expand-html-encoded-chars) > > and then tried to do the same with this function: > > (defun reverse-string (beg end) > (interactive "r") > (setq str (buffer-substring beg end)) > (apply #'string (nreverse (string-to-list str)))) > > but it doesn't seem to work, although it doesn't produce errors in a > traceback buffer. What am I missing? Miles' expand-html-encoded-chars function modifies the buffer, with replace-match. Your reverse-string function generates a value, but does not modify the buffer. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA