Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!nwd 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 Lines: 25 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# Daniel Lawrence (317) 742-5153 UUCP: {ihnp4!pur-ee!}j.cc.purdue.edu!nwd ARPA: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu FIDO: 201/2 The Programmer's Room (317) 742-5533