From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does this lisp function to grab text from buffer not work as I expect Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:41:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365805881 27128 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2013 22:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:31:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 13 00:31:25 2013 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 1UQmV7-0001B2-N4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQmV7-0002u7-B0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:31:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="24075"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/I2eMMkob/IRfg5LtJXmyT" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ddx2fzvxrXihlQGOPkWE1goI29I= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197866 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:26:36 -0400 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:90135 Archived-At: In article , acomber wrote: > I have some text like this: > > qwerty\tberty > merty\tserty > > I want to grab the text berty between the tab character and end of line. > Then to show it worked goto the end of the buffer and insert the text there. > > But this code doesn't work. Any ideas why not? > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/Why-does-this-lisp-function-to-grab-text-fr > om-buffer-not-work-as-I-expect-tp283560.html > Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Invisible code tends to work poorly. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***