From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quote marked region [utilities] Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:29:08 +0300 Message-ID: <838s67o9l7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83blb3oamh.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25944"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 12:29:40 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSfs-0006f1-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:29:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSfr-0005wi-72 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSfI-0005wa-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSfH-0000bB-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1682 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lQSfH-0000Sw-29 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:29:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128737 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:21:15 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > See combine-and-quote-strings. (Did you try using "M-x apropos" to > > find something like that?) > > `combine-and-quote-strings' seem handy for lists of strings. It is not > interactive function that works on region, and my function does not > yet work on list of strings But it's trivial to make use of combine-and-quote-strings, coupled with buffer-substring, to produce a command that works on the region, no? > M-x apropos is definitely useful, but I have not tried searching that > way. I have tried in a different way by using `C-h f' with joker > symbol `*' and `quote' with TAB, for example, it looks like: That's much less efficient. Try this instead: M-x apropos RET string quote RET