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
next prev 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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