From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: getting abbrev table objects given a string with the same name
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:54:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D89C8C.30408@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87isdj5ygl.fsf@osu.edu
Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> How can I do something like the following:
>
> (define-abbrev (concat "c-mode" "-abbrev-table") "foo" "bar" nil)
>
> What I want is to define an abbrev based on an abbrev table name that
> is dyamically built. The problem is, the 1st arg to define-abbrev
> must be an abbrev table, not a string. So, the problem becomes, how
> can I get an abbrev table, given a string with the same name.
You need to get from a string, to a symbol with the same name (with
intern), to it's value (with symbol-value):
(symbol-value (intern (concat "c-mode" "-abbrev-table")))
--
Kevin Rodgers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 16:50 getting abbrev table objects given a string with the same name Benjamin Rutt
2004-06-22 17:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-06-22 21:06 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-06-22 20:54 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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