From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Proper use of function form Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:58:32 -0800 Message-ID: <66e22568-f976-0749-b4a6-e8bbe6f4b745@akwebsoft.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="22518"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 03:59:03 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jSt31-0005iV-F3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:58:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2075.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - akwebsoft.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 64.4.232.191 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1jSt2X-0033Bi-SW X-Source-Sender: tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([192.168.1.6]) [64.4.232.191]:46402 X-Source-Auth: tim@tj49.com X-Email-Count: 1 X-Source-Cap: bW9sZG92YXM7bW9sZG92YXM7aG9zdDIwNzUuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes Received-SPF: neutral client-ip=192.185.147.108; envelope-from=tim@akwebsoft.com; helo=gateway33.websitewelcome.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/26 21:58:34 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 192.185.147.108 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122950 Archived-At: On 4/26/20 4:48 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 19:27, Tim Johnson wrote: > >> (setq my-keypairs '("h" my-h-func "g" my-g-func "f" my-f-func)) >> >> and using iteration to *programmatically* call define-key for multiple >> key definitions as in >> >> (define-key mymap ;; add to keymap >> (kbd (concat ldr (nth ndx mylist))) ;; sequence as in "g" >> (nth (+ ndx 1) mylist)) ;; command as in my-g-func >> >> The form above is indeed a snippet from a defun that I have used for years >> >> Would it be better to change (nth (+ ndx 1) mylist) to (function (nth (+ >> ndx 1) mylist)) ? > No, you would put the function in the `my-keypairs' initializer: > > (setq my-keypairs `("h" ,#'my-h-func "g" ,#'my-g-func "f" ,#'my-func)) > > I usually don't bother sharp-quoting in lists of functions though. > Wow! I had been thinking of that myself, but not fully understanding how symbols are evaluated in descending layers in sexps, this is a great second opinion. Thank you Noam. ... and keep 'em coming -- Tim tj49.com