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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:20:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gs6bm4$12k$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3LydnaCSF_RDIXnUnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net>

B. T. Raven wrote:
> (defalias 'xhc 'expand-html-encoded-chars)
> 
> and then tried to do the same with this function:
> 
> (defun reverse-string (beg end)
>   (interactive "r")
>   (setq str (buffer-substring beg end))
>   (apply #'string (nreverse (string-to-list str))))
> 
> but it doesn't seem to work, although it doesn't produce errors in a 
> traceback buffer. What am I missing?

Miles' expand-html-encoded-chars function modifies the buffer, with 
replace-match.  Your reverse-string function generates a value, but
does not modify the buffer.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-16  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-13 20:17 ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode B. T. Raven
2009-04-13 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-14  3:07 ` Miles Bader
2009-04-14 16:42   ` B. T. Raven
2009-04-15 21:43     ` Stephen Berman
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5401.1239831823.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-16  1:42       ` B. T. Raven
2009-04-16  4:35         ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-04-16 13:23         ` Stephen Berman
2009-04-16  4:20     ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5427.1239855645.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-17  3:39       ` B. T. Raven
2009-04-17 15:19         ` Stephen Berman
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5538.1239981609.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-17 23:20           ` B. T. Raven

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