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. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english