From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: parametrized function definition Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:19:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4874749E.3070406@gmail.com> References: <87zlosz4n6.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> <48746376.1000306@gmail.com> <87zlorh3wj.fsf@ambire.localdomain> 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 1215591722 23078 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2008 08:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 09 10:22:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KGUwp-0001Y2-D7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:22:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUvy-0006Ba-07 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUu3-0005L8-4S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUu1-0005KG-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47915 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUu1-0005KC-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:54426) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGUu0-00043e-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:60237 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KGUtv-0007mb-3i; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:19:49 +0200 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 In-Reply-To: <87zlorh3wj.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080708-0, 2008-07-08), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KGUtv-0007mb-3i. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KGUtv-0007mb-3i 6ecdc859ae8d83f73bd45678a409c6aa X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55334 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > () Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:30 +0200 > > > (defun set-local-key-insert () > > "set a local key to insert some text" > > (interactive) > > (let (keystring textinsert) > > (setq keystring (read-key-sequence "Key combination to bind: ")) > > (setq textinsert (read-string "Text to insert: ")) > > (local-set-key (read-kbd-macro keystring) > > (lambda () (interactive) > > (insert textinsert))))) > > You can remove textinsert from let and make it a defvar instead. > > (defvar textinsert nil) > > Yes, but that would defeat the presumed intention of using `textinsert' > as a local variable. Practically, this means `set-local-key-insert' > invocations clobber previous invocations' state (last invocation wins). > > Probably OP wants `lexical-let'. > > thi Then maybe this page is helpful: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FakeClosures