From: suzee <vronk+cllbrtn.mcs@mailbox.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with defining a background color by variable
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 11:41:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43342c57-ee79-c290-6e1e-cb3b061fd835@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgiiutrj.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12.06.22 11:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I'd be happy to understand the error message though to gain some
>> knowledge about elisp. Any idea about that?
>
> I think it's because of the quoting: the entire list is quoted, so the
> value of mycolor is not evaluated. You need to use a smarter quoting,
> something like
>
> `((t (:background ,mycolor)))
>
Ah yeah that works. I still have to get my head around the quoting.
Thanks for your help! Problem solved :]
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-12 8:24 Problem with defining a background color by variable suzee
2022-06-12 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 8:58 ` suzee
2022-06-12 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 9:41 ` suzee [this message]
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