From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "hans nieuwenhuizen" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: copy-region-to-variable Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:06:00 +0100 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: hans nieuwenhuizen NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075900908 21973 80.91.224.253 (4 Feb 2004 13:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 04 14:21:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AoMyM-0006QI-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:21:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AoMyL-0004nr-Se for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:21:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news2.telebyte.nl!surfnet.nl!news.tue.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: n48.dial.tue.nl Original-X-Trace: news.tue.nl 1075900013 977 131.155.209.47 (4 Feb 2004 13:06:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tue.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:06:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120683 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16631 None of the almost 2000 built-in functions of emacs 21.2 seems to copy part of the buffer ( region ) into a variable. You need that e.g. if you have to enlarge the double in the region by a factor of say 3.456 . Can anybody tell me how to do that? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Ir. j.k. nieuwenhuizen email: hans@nieuwenhuizen-jk.nl dom Paul Bellotweg 8 5624 KZ Eindhoven - NL Tel [{++31|0}40]2442226 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -