From: Eike Kettner <eike.kettner@posteo.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: fill-paragraph from elisp
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:55:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iojqpmic.fsf@ithaka.home> (raw)
Hello list,
I want to insert some text from a database into a buffer. This should
happen with `fill-paraph' applied, and the string contains multiple
paragraphs. I came up with this (`descr' is the string):
(let ((beg (point)))
(insert descr)
(set-mark beg)
(fill-paragraph nil t)
(set-mark nil))
This works, but I'm not feeling confident with it. The documentation of
`set-mark' says this:
...Novice Emacs Lisp programmers often try to use the mark for the
wrong purposes. ...
So.. I'm a novice elisp programmer. Is this a "wrong purpose"? What is
the idiomatic way to achieve this?
Thanks and regards
Eike
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-11 16:55 Eike Kettner [this message]
2014-10-11 19:15 ` fill-paragraph from elisp Drew Adams
2014-10-11 19:52 ` Eike Kettner
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