From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Writing a Lisp to show the capacity of the battery of the laptop Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:51:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87d3mkc8rf.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87r5b1phrr.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298394181 30204 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2011 17:03:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:03:01 +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 Feb 22 18:02:57 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrvdW-0007Dg-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:02:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrvTv-0007Gu-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:52:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47995 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrvTQ-00074n-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrvTI-0001Xc-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrvTH-0001XD-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrvTF-0001Eq-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:52:17 +0100 Original-Received: from eps142.cdf.udc.es ([193.144.52.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:52:17 +0100 Original-Received: from aluaces by eps142.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:52:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: eps142.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:twZQM1kxrVuGu0vKHVdOlGTxWag= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:79332 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan writes: > Your code is unorganized and buffer-centric for no reason. I'm also an elisp newbie and were doing the same buffer fiddling, since I didn't know that `shell-command' returned a string with the output until I saw your example. Is there any existing convention about this? I can't find that information in an explicit form in that function documentation. -- Alberto