From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Operate on each line in region
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:44:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-8E00EC.19441823042014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 02d45a30-ac9e-46a1-8f7b-1e3ce651de00@googlegroups.com
In article <02d45a30-ac9e-46a1-8f7b-1e3ce651de00@googlegroups.com>,
Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having more trouble figuring this out that I expected.
>
> I tried building a function around align-regexp:
>
> (defun my-justify-equals (start end)
> "Indents current region to justify equals signs"
> (interactive 'r')
> (align-regexp start end "\\([ \t]*\\)\\(.*\\)=" 1 nil nil))
>
> But when I attempt to evaluate the defun I get
>
> Invalid read syntax: ")"
You have the wrong type of quotes around the interactive string, it
should be:
(interactive "r")
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 17:45 Operate on each line in region Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-23 18:03 ` Doug Lewan
2014-04-23 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-23 18:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.20129.1398276348.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-23 19:06 ` Barry Margolin
2014-04-23 19:18 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-23 23:23 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-23 23:44 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2014-04-26 3:02 ` Jacob Gerlach
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