From: Hugh Lawson <hlawson@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: need help on hobby project
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:29:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9vq34om.fsf@hobbit.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
To improve my scanty knowledge of elisp, I want to rewrite a macro as a
function. I can't get to first base on this. I think I can do this if
given links or keywords for the self-instruction of a noob.
For example I can't make out this:
(shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)
I can't find a reference on how to read this line.
The function should do this:
I put point on a word in text buffer. Then I hit a command
key, say C-l.
2.command key calls function that does this:
reads word into an accessible place as a string
shell-command "whitaker <put word string here>"
latin calls my latin-english dictionary
the output appears in the shell command buffer
3. I accomplised this with this keyboard macro:
;;look up latin words
(fset 'whitaker
[?\M-x ?c ?o ?p ?y ?- ?w ?o tab return ?\M-x ?s ?h ?e ?l tab ?- ?c ?o ?m ?m tab return ?l ?a ?t ?i ?n ? ?\C-y return])
(global-set-key (kbd "C-l") 'whitaker)
The macro uses the function copy-word, borrowed from here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyWithoutSelection
Thanks.
next reply other threads:[~2015-01-16 19:29 UTC|newest]
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2015-01-16 19:29 Hugh Lawson [this message]
2015-01-16 21:01 ` Hugh Lawson
2015-01-16 21:44 ` Emanuel Berg
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