From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to read a s-exp from a buffer?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:59:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9pvfwce.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
Hi all,
so I want to write my own lexical analyzer of Elisp code (a very simple
one, of course). Encouraged by Michael Heerdegen, I might want to start
with a simple metacircular evaluator (just as an exercise, further to be
transformed e.g. to a blog post for other learners of (Emacs) Lisp), and
then I’d like to write a more useful thing analyzing Elisp code.
So, I have an s-exp in the buffer, and I want to read it into
a variable, where it will become an Elisp list. How do I do that?
Notice that I’d like to preserve all the funny things like (back)quotes
or commas, since I want to deal with them in my code. That’s why
I assume that the ‘read’ function is not exactly what I’m looking for.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2015-06-25 18:59 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-06-25 19:18 ` How to read a s-exp from a buffer? Michael Heerdegen
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