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Re: Reading from a buffer


From: Jean-Christophe Helary
Subject: Re: Reading from a buffer
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:38:33 +0900

As Jakub mentioned, did you check the f.el library ?

https://github.com/rejeep/f.el

> On Jul 2, 2020, at 5:19, Greg Hill <gregoryohill@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The function 'buffer-substring-no-properties' is certainly a step in the
> right direction, thank you. I've now got it down to:
> (setq count (car (read-from-string (buffer-substring-no-properties (mark)
> (point)))))
> But I'm nothing short of astonished that there is not yet anything in
> standard Emacs Lisp that is comparable to a formatted read-from-buffer
> statement in a more conventional programming language like Fortran or C.
> I'm imagining something akin to '(insert (format...' but working in the
> opposite direction, something like '(unformat (read...'.  Perhaps I'll just
> create my own library of intuitive and easy-to-use buffer I/O functions
> since I expect to be doing quite a bit of this sort of thing in the future.

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
http://mac4translators.blogspot.com




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