From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to delete the parens around a sexp? Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:40:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87vbb23nrn.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442907671 18978 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2015 07:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:41:11 +0000 (UTC) To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 09:41:04 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 1ZeICG-0005f2-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:41:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeICF-0003Wh-Jk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46496) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeIC3-0003Uq-QV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeIBz-0001HC-Mc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:47961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeIBy-0001AZ-72 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EA76F2007 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:40:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6PYedrUEQCrv for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:40:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (103-115.echostar.pl [213.156.103.115]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2A4E66F2003 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:40:34 +0200 (CEST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 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:107273 Archived-At: Hi list, I'd like to transform this: -!-(some gibberish) into this: -!-some gibberish I assume there's no function in Elisp for that, and it's trivial to write one, but I just wanted to make sure before I code it. raise-sexp doesn't work, since it gobbles "gibberish" in the above example unless given a prefix argument, and if you replace "some gibberish" with an actual sentence, counting words manually is no fun. (Note: before anyone tells me how such a transformation doesn't make sense: I need it for writing in a natural language.) TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University