Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070527 00:00]: Here's the code, hope it helps! (defun extract-footnotes () Copy all footnotes to a separate *FOOTNOTES* buffer (interactive) (let ((active-buffer (current-buffer))) (save-excursion (if (memq (get-buffer *FOOTNOTES*)

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/27/2007 12:30 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy all text which is not a footnote. [...] Next, I

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-27 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-27, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code runs in Emacs. If I comment out the line (transient-mark-mode -1), it also runs in XEmacs. But in both cases, it aborts with an unbalanced parenthesis error after finding about ten footnotes (about 25 percent of the file,

XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
I use XEmacs as my editor. I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy all text which is not a footnote. Is there a way to: (1) set the mark (2) search forward for the next instance of the

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use XEmacs as my editor. I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy all text which is not a footnote. Is there a way to: (1)

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-26, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy all text which is not a footnote. The easy

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070527 00:00]: On 2007-05-26, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070527 00:00]: ... One note - I had to turn off transient-mark-mode to get this to work. I don't know why. If you like to use transient mark mode you'll have to turn it back on afterwards. Here's the code, hope it helps! Tyler (defun extract-footnotes