From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to read a s-exp from a buffer?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:18:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp4ja962.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h9pvfwce.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> 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?
Fortunately the reader can be invoked from Lisp via `read', just use
your buffer as STREAM argument with point at the beginning of the sexp
to read, e.g.
(setq my-expr (read (current-buffer)))
That's already it.
Michael.
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2015-06-25 18:59 How to read a s-exp from a buffer? Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 19:18 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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