Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode

[Kevin Rodgers]

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.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA