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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 ")

  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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