From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Need help with a simple macro to define a new function Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:47:53 +0100 Message-ID: <473CA269.2000805@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195156099 25536 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2007 19:48:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:48:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 15 20:48:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IskhL-00089n-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:48:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iskh8-0006fH-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iskh3-0006bA-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iskh1-0006XD-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iskh1-0006X4-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iskh1-0001C1-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62597 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Iskgx-0003YY-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:48:00 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071114-0, 2007-11-14), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Iskgx-0003YY-5j. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Iskgx-0003YY-5j 2462f893f1d2e922468a0c5c35ac8a27 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83286 Archived-At: Can someone please explain how to write this: (defmacro new-defun (function) (declare (doc-string 3)) (let* ((name (symbol-name function)) (new-name (concat "new-" name)) (new-sym (make-symbol new-name))) `(defun ,new-sym () (interactive) (message "new function")(sit-for 2) (call-interactively ,function)))) (new-defun forward-char) I expected a new function named new-forward-char, but that did not happen.