* How to read a s-exp from a buffer?
@ 2015-06-25 18:59 Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 19:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2015-06-25 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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