From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:35:03 -0600 Message-ID: References: <5-WdnWGdu7Z1AH7UnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <3LydnaCSF_RDIXnUnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <0smdnSjaEryJEHvUnZ2dnUVZ_r2dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239856539 2829 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2009 04:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:35:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 16 06:36:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LuJLN-0001tz-3G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:36:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJJy-0003JT-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJJZ-0003Gl-95 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJJU-000388-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38275 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJJU-00037m-Bd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38461 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LuJJT-0002xY-LE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LuJJQ-0002nf-SG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:34:57 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:34:56 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:34:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) In-Reply-To: <0smdnSjaEryJEHvUnZ2dnUVZ_r2dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63770 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > That would probably do a little more than I want. Miles' expand html > function is only needed if someone sends these ncr sequences in email. > Btw, why are beg and end calculated in the function if they are passed > to it? This almost does what I want: > > (defun reverse-bufsubstring (beg end) > (interactive "r") > (let* ( > (str1 (buffer-substring beg end)) > (str2 (apply #'string (nreverse (string-to-list str1))))) > (replace-string str1 str2 nil beg end))) > > > except that it converts > > same > one > as > before > > into this: > > erofeb > sa > eno > emas > > so now that has to be reversed line by line rather than character by > character. Anyway, all of this is just a kludge until the gurus come up > with a real bidi functionality. (defun reverse-region-by-line (beg end) (interactive "r") (save-excursion (goto-char beg) (while (and (< (point) end) (re-search-forward "\\=.*$" end t)) (replace-match (apply #'string (nreverse (string-to-list (match-string 0))))) (forward-line)))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA