From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to read a s-exp from a buffer? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:18:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87pp4ja962.fsf@web.de> References: <87h9pvfwce.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435259967 16049 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2015 19:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:19:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 21:19:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Cg9-0007Vw-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:19:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Cg9-0000bu-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Cfy-0000bo-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Cft-0003Yy-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Cft-0003Yc-KE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Cfr-0007CZ-IQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-253-113.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.253.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-253-113.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:18:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-253-113.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W3HCThtYD+BYfdQ88mkSvbXBIQw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105179 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski 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.