From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Execute as a command a yanked text
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:56:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mzdzo2ik.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ubquftpr1.fsf@gmail.com
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:
> Stefan Horomnea <stefan@softexperience.ro> writes:
>
>> Do you have any idea how to execute a text that was previously killed ?
>> I mean, I have a function named insert-html-table.
>>
>> This code works:
>> (command-execute 'insert-html-table)
>>
>> This code doesn't work:
>> (command-execute (car kill-ring-yank-pointer))
>>
>> *and I have previously killed "insert-html-table"
>>
>> and, this also works (insert (car kill-ring-yank-pointer)) - and
>> inserts the text: "insert-html-table".
>
> The problem seems to be that (car kill-ring-yank-pointer) returns a
> *string*, not a symbol which `command-execute' needs. Maybe this
> works (untested):
>
> (command-execute (make-symbol (car kill-ring-yank-pointer)))
Won't work because make-symbol returns an uninterned symbol (which has
the print name "insert-html-table", but not the meaning of the
previously interned symbol with the same name):
make-symbol is a built-in function in `C source code'.
(make-symbol NAME)
Return a newly allocated uninterned symbol whose name is NAME.
Its value and function definition are void, and its property list
is nil.
Instead you need to use intern:
intern is a built-in function in `C source code'.
(intern STRING &optional OBARRAY)
Return the canonical symbol whose name is STRING.
If there is none, one is created by this function and returned.
A second optional argument specifies the obarray to use;
it defaults to the value of `obarray'.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2006-05-03 9:12 ` Execute as a command a yanked text Stefan Horomnea
[not found] ` <mailman.1260.1146647515.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-03 9:35 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-03 9:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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2006-05-03 17:01 ` Stefan Horomnea
2006-05-03 18:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-05-03 19:52 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <mailman.1290.1146675647.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-04 8:03 ` Mathias Dahl
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