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From: Thomas Link <esendepe@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: Elisp newbie: Getting the value from a variable
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:28:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e0069cb$0$14190$3b214f66@news.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80252354.0212180230.4fae12dd@posting.google.com>

> (setq default-frame-alist 
>       '((menu-bar-lines . 1)
> 	(top . 5) 
> 	(left . 100)
> 	(width . 100) 
> 	(height . my-frame-height)
> 	(cursor-color . "white")
> 	(cursor-type . box)
> 	(foreground-color . "black")
> 	(background-color . "white")
> 	(font . "-*-Courier New-normal-r-*-*-11-82-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")
> 	)
> )


You have to use a backquote (see C-h C-f backquote):

(setq default-frame-alist `(... (height . ,my-frame-height) ...)

Ciao,
Thomas.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-12-18 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-18 10:30 Elisp newbie: Getting the value from a variable Fredrik Oberg
2002-12-18 12:28 ` Thomas Link [this message]

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