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I’m using emacs and I have written a script which uses “current-buffer”. However the emacs system doesn’t recognise “current-buffer”. When I try “M – x current-buffer” i get the response:
no match
: Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
current-bufferis not an interactive function. That is, can’t be invoked interactively viaM-xas you’ve tried to do. You can execute non-interactive lisp-code directly by usingeval-expressionas follows:Notice that you have to enter a proper lisp expression. If you want to capture the value in a variable, something like this
will store the current buffer into the variable
xyzzy.