Re: How to read a s-exp from a buffer?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> So, I have an s-exp in the buffer, and I want to read it into
> a variable, where it will become an Elisp list.  How do I do that?

Fortunately the reader can be invoked from Lisp via `read', just use
your buffer as STREAM argument with point at the beginning of the sexp
to read, e.g.

  (setq my-expr (read (current-buffer)))

That's already it.


Michael.