From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: input to interactive M: key from text at point (was: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 198, Issue 83) Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 19:46:18 +1000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="92275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 25 12:01:58 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hUTUz-000Nrp-Nd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2019 12:01:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUTUy-0006T2-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2019 06:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUTUl-00066c-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2019 06:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUTI2-0003yW-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2019 05:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54168 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUTI1-0003xY-Rk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2019 05:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hUTHw-0007mt-6d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2019 11:48:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:cmm5BdNeTxhdh17ivZ2nTBSZ82A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120636 Archived-At: Budi writes: > How to hook string/word at point to be as input interactive M-: key, > i.e. prompting Eval: on minibuffer ? Guessing that you have text you want to evaluate as elisp, try the following. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- C-h f eval-region --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- What I do is select a region of elisp text and M-x eval-region. Hope that helps. -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "I don't believe any anything that the media say." - Ali Abdelaziz