This is interesting. Just yesterday I asked myself how I can embed links to info nodes in a markdown file. I realized it's easiest to just put the expression in

This is interesting. Just yesterday I asked myself how I can embed links to info nodes in a markdown file. I realized it's easiest to just put the expression in my file like so: (info "(elisp) Hash Tables") (info "(elisp) Cons Cells") (info "(elisp) Vectors") Then I asked myself how I can run it without going to the last parenthesis and then hitting C-x C-e, so I wrote a function: ;;;; eval expression at point in text / markdown (defun ugt-eval-expression-at-point () "Evaluate the expression at the current point." (interactive) (save-excursion (while (ignore-errors (backward-up-list) t)) ; Move to the beginning of the outermost sexp (let ((end (point))) (forward-sexp) ; Move to the end of this sexp (eval-region end (point))))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-s-e") 'ugt-eval-outermost-sexp-at-point) So now I can be in between the parentheses and hit C-s-e (Control-Command-e), and it will be evaluated. I even embed search expressions in my documents: (ugt-search "French Revolution") So be able to just click those expressions, I created another function: ;;;; highlight s-expressions (defun ugt-highlight-expressions () "Make expressions starting with '(' and ending with ')' highlighted." (interactive) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((expression-regex "\\((.*?)\\)")) (while (re-search-forward expression-regex nil t) (let* ((start (match-beginning 0)) (end (match-end 0)) (expression (match-string-no-properties 0))) (let ((overlay (make-overlay start end))) (overlay-put overlay 'face '(:foreground "#8FBFDC" :weight bold)) (overlay-put overlay 'help-echo (concat "Click to evaluate: " expression)) (overlay-put overlay 'mouse-face 'highlight) (overlay-put overlay 'keymap (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (define-key map [mouse-1] `(lambda () (interactive) (let ((expr ,expression)) (eval (read expr)) (message "Evaluated expression: %s" expr)))) map)))))))) ## Edit Emacs just rocks!