From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: acomber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why does this lisp function to grab text from buffer not work as I expect Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1365776306646-283560.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365776325 1282 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2013 14:18:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:18:45 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 16:18:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UQeoS-0001nM-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:18:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQeoS-0007zk-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQeoD-0007zJ-0n for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQeo8-0004CG-91 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:57743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQeo8-0004By-4w for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UQeo6-0005F6-NT for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:18:26 -0700 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90120 Archived-At: I have some text like this: qwerty\tberty merty\tserty I want to grab the text berty between the tab character and end of line. Then to show it worked goto the end of the buffer and insert the text there. But this code doesn't work. Any ideas why not? -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/Why-does-this-lisp-function-to-grab-text-from-buffer-not-work-as-I-expect-tp283560.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.