From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eval-last-sexp in other window Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:53:34 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87bpri9lhd.fsf@galatea.local> References: <87d4bzbfky.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238488905 2548 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2009 08:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:41:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 10:43:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LoZYl-0003Jh-1B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:43:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoZXN-0003m5-Es for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:41:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp4-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDRhNTVhNWU4ZTBlY2FiZDg5MDQzMTcyMGRlMDBkNTU4Mzk4YzkyYQ== Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Mar 2009 09:53:36 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1238486016 news-3.free.fr 23629 88.182.134.169:52869 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168128 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:63414 Archived-At: Bob Babcock writes: > pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote in > news:87d4bzbfky.fsf@galatea.local: > >>> Is there a way to have eval-last-sexp (typically bound to C-xC-e) run >>> in a different window? This would be convenient when developing a >>> macro that reformats text - I want the part of the macro I'm testing >>> to be applied to the file being reformatted, not to my macro. >> >> You may use M-: to apply a form to the current buffer. >> >> >> Otherwise: >> >> (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "The Other Buffer Name") >> (do-what-you-want)) C-x C-e > > Thanks. After several false starts, I have a simple macro that seems to do > what I want: > > (defun last-sexp-other-window() > "Get last sexp and run it in other window. > If there isn't another window, use current window." > (interactive) > (setq ow-sexp (preceding-sexp)) > (other-window 1) (eval ow-sexp) (other-window -1) ) At the very least, use let, not setq! (defun last-sexp-other-window() "Get last sexp and run it in other window. If there isn't another window, use current window." (interactive) (let ((ow-sexp (preceding-sexp))) (other-window 1) (eval ow-sexp) (other-window -1))) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__