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From: Andrew Taylor <ataylor@its.to>
Subject: Re: evaluate expression in scratch buffer
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:23:52 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBXhc.220744$oR5.170503@pd7tw3no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c69c00$7et$1@news.island.liu.se>

William Payne wrote:

> Hello, I want to evaluate the following expression:
> (insert (prin1-to-string (w32-select-font)))
> 
> I read that I should evaluate it in the scratch buffer, so I typed it in
> there...but what do I do to get the actual evaluation to occur?

In lisp-interaction-mode (which is what the *scratch* buffer uses), C-j 
is mapped to eval-print-last-sexp.  Just position the point after the 
last closing parenthesis and press C-j.

-- 
Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-22 21:04 evaluate expression in scratch buffer William Payne
2004-04-22 21:27 ` Marco Parrone
2004-04-22 22:23 ` Andrew Taylor [this message]
2004-04-23  6:20 ` Holger Sparr
2004-04-23 16:11 ` Kevin Rodgers

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