From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: string func to use in .emacs
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:57:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smi3nyz2.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877jzfz9fw.fsf@tulip.whu.ca
Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:44:45 +0100, Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> A common idiom when you have a function that works in a buffer and
>> want to apply it to a string is to use a temporary buffer:
>
>> (defun string-trim-right (str)
>> (with-temp-buffer
>> (insert str)
>> (delete-trailing-whitespace)
>> (buffer-string)))
>
> I tried to use the func and got an error: My code:
>
> (string-trim-right("Emacs "))
That should be:
(string-trim-right "Emacs ")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-25 5:11 string func to use in .emacs Peter Wu
2004-01-25 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1300.1075012227.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-25 14:21 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-25 17:45 ` Mario Domgörgen
2004-01-26 0:26 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-26 0:44 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 3:16 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-26 3:57 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-01-26 14:55 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-26 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-25 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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