From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Combining two short lisp routines Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 18:47:53 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306268843 19459 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:27:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:27:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 22:27:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyCG-0001Ac-8O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:27:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyCF-0002PE-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:27:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 18:47:38 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.129.70 Original-X-Trace: sv3-40C304DQdWmt4oY3fvPS7BI32pwnb2A0G0ppu012gl98ZHM2Mq4n8aOANCMqtoeIw5Pq6VxKSrqgdxE!tp7Qm1uEKEO0JNgXUluGH/n9piTfLwkJMldAMJXGzfiVaKPNhrZW9YvOR41mQj278Kck7iEgWFoN!Aa4SDf/wmPyCzBiDVG9yH+2PoM835w== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1678 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186793 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2011-06-07 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81156 Archived-At: Can these two routines be combined, maybe by not even visiting dict.txt, but transferring everything to end of line from that buffer? (defun sld (word);; run from rcirc channel "Regex Search dictionary for Eng Word at line beginning" (interactive"sWord:") (switch-to-buffer "dict.txt") (re-search-forward (concat "^" word)) ) (defun ttb (beg end);; run from dict.txt buffer "Transfer text to other buffer\n" (interactive "r") ;; in dict.txt buffer mark stretch of text here interactively for ;;;copying back to channel buffer (switch-to-buffer (other-buffer)) (yank) ) Thanks, Ed