From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: 33007@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:49:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pnwh4je8.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
I would like to propose function for GNU Emacs so that there is
function to edit and return the string.
It would be equivalent to read-from-minibuffer only that we shall have
function to edit in the whole buffer, not just in one line in mini
buffer.
Sadly I don't know how to make it.
Here are my two attempts:
(defun rcd-edit-value (value)
(let ((file (make-temp-file "rcd-db-" nil ".txt" value)))
(find-file file)
(string-from-file)))
(defun string-from-file (file)
"Return file content."
(with-temp-buffer
(insert-file-contents file)
(buffer-string)))
(setq got-it (rcd-edit-value "something"))
but this one is not working as (find-file file) does not wait, and I get
"something" back from file.
This below is my other attempt which looks more logical and could end
with C-c C-c but I am failing to get the value given back.
(defun buffer-out ()
(interactive)
(let ((buffer (current-buffer))
(value (buffer-string)))
(kill-buffer buffer)))
;; (defun buffer-string-out ()
;; (interactive)
;; (buffer-string))
(defun edit-string (string)
(interactive)
(let ((buffer "*edit-string*"))
(get-buffer-create buffer)
(switch-to-buffer buffer)
(set-buffer buffer)
(let ((inhibit-read-only nil))
(insert string)
(fundamental-mode)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c") 'buffer-out))))
In my opinion such function shall exist in Emacs by standard, so that
user is able to quickly edit string in a temporary buffer or temporary
file or both, and that value of the buffer is returned back.
Several people asked me why I would do that. Some variables requires
editing, and variables could be as big as Org file, and they could come
from a database.
Then I could edit field values from PostgreSQL database and construct
other small helpful programs.
Jean
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2018-10-10 20:49 Jean Louis [this message]
2018-10-11 2:36 ` bug#33007: 27.0.50; Proposal for function to edit and return string Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-11 6:33 ` Jean Louis
2018-10-11 13:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-10-11 13:40 ` Jean Louis
2018-10-11 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-11 20:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-10-11 21:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-12 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-12 11:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-10-12 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-24 13:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-25 3:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-25 7:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-25 15:42 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-25 22:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-26 7:23 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-26 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 15:36 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 12:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 15:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-27 16:44 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 17:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 7:32 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-28 10:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-08 18:22 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-09 9:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 18:52 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-10 1:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-25 22:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-26 9:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-10-11 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-11 14:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-10-11 14:08 ` Jean Louis
2018-10-11 14:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-10-11 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-11 14:36 ` Jean Louis
[not found] ` <<87lg74zk2k.fsf@web.de>
[not found] ` <<834ldsy31m.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-10-11 14:41 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-11 16:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-15 20:34 ` Juri Linkov
2018-10-15 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-16 22:12 ` Juri Linkov
2018-10-16 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-17 15:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] <<86pnwh4je8.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com>
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