From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: farbot@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: syntax / method for executing an emacs lisp function? Date: 30 May 2006 12:01:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1149015680.596231.157620@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1149002530.775420.198690@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149018034 17565 80.91.229.2 (30 May 2006 19:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 21:40:32 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 1FlA4q-0008GI-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 21:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlA4p-0006wP-IA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 15:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.115.30.162 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1149015685 10473 127.0.0.1 (30 May 2006 19:01:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:01:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1149002530.775420.198690@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=146.115.30.162; posting-account=zl7zWA0AAACtTQDq8H67s6vpS4MFW6MQ Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139671 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35294 Archived-At: Thank you very much for your kind and thoughtful replies. After getting into Lisp Interaction mode, I was able to execute the regexp-opt command using C-j. It looks now like I took many wrong turns in over four hours of reading the manuals and searching help yesterday. I did search for help on Lisp Interaction, but somehow ended up at "External Lisp", which told me to use RET to execute commands. I appreciate the pointers to the specific wiki and manual pages; those were extremely helpful. Thanks for taking the time to help me run this one command I needed.