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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Bug/Enhancement for uEmacs 3.9
Message-ID: <5863@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 10:00:25 EST
Article-I.D.: j.5863
Posted: Sat Nov 28 10:00:25 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 03:43:08 EST
References: <946@pedsgo.UUCP>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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Keywords: uemacs 3.9 filter execution buffer filter-buffer
Summary: filter-buffer question

In article <946@pedsgo.UUCP> nick@pedsgo.UUCP (Nicolai Kosche) writes:
>Since uEmacs 3.7 a fiter-buffer command has been implemented.
>This is ^X#, by the way.
>
>In version 3.7 it would take a VIEW mode file and filter it anyway.
>Then 3.8, and subsequently 3.9, disabled the command for VIEW mode.
>I would like to suggest the command be modified to filter the file
>reguardless of mode and only accept the filter results if the VIEW
>mode flag is not set.

	I don't understand your request. Why would filtering the buffer
be usefull if you are only going to throw away the results? If you
simply want filter-buffer to override VIEW mode, the following would
surfice:

40	store-macro
	delete-mode view
	filter-buffer
!endm
bind-to-key execute-macro-40 ^X#

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