From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inserting some text in a working buffer Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 20:02:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87lf8pxfvy.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7167"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:TA3DlqWXKVeN0+ykrpagKF31ioY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 08 20:03:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfRIT-0001lW-34 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 20:03:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfRIS-0004OT-44 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 14:03:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfRIA-0004OK-HC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 14:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfRI9-0004iM-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 14:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfRI7-0001PP-BP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 20:03:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129574 Archived-At: michael-franzese wrote: > (defun insert-text (text) > "Inserts text frem beginning of line located at cursor point." > (interactive) > (with-current-buffer (buffer-name) > (goto-char (point)) > (insert text) > (next-line)) ) Hahaha :) "(with-current-buffer (buffer-name)" - you are already in that buffer... and "(goto-char (point))" - you are already there! "(next-line)" - see the help, one should use `forward-line'... There is nothing in the code to do it "frem" beginning of line but you can use `beginning-of-line' for that... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal