From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ask for the value of several variables at once
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:23:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861sgtpbsz.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10316.1520596187.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
tomas wrote:
> But then, in the "classical" setting, you'd
> have to pass the names as symbols (otherwise
> they are evaluated), as in
>
> (echo-vars 'foo 'bar 'meep 'boop)
Yes, that's what I wrote:
;; (echo-vars 'fill-column 'buffer-file-name)
However much "symbols" that is, quoted literals
at best.
No, here is one ocasion macros should do it.
Holly would if she could...
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2018-03-08 15:52 ask for the value of several variables at once Uwe Brauer
2018-03-08 16:08 ` tomas
2018-03-08 17:56 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-03-08 21:55 ` tomas
2018-03-09 18:13 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-03-09 20:07 ` Nick Dokos
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2018-03-09 20:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 23:44 ` Nick Dokos
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2018-03-09 19:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-14 9:26 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-03-14 9:42 ` Yuri Khan
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2018-03-14 10:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-14 11:53 ` Yuri Khan
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2018-03-14 12:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-17 16:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-17 17:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-17 20:59 ` John Mastro
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2018-03-18 12:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-18 12:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-19 21:14 ` John Mastro
2018-03-18 15:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-03-18 15:09 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-03-14 9:39 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-03-09 8:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 8:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 9:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 10:14 ` tomas
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2018-03-09 10:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 11:49 ` tomas
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2018-03-09 14:23 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-03-09 18:18 ` Uwe Brauer
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2018-03-09 19:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 9:19 ` tomas
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2018-03-09 10:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 10:21 ` tomas
2018-03-09 20:07 ` Robert L.
2018-03-09 20:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-09 10:03 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-09 18:15 ` Uwe Brauer
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2018-03-09 10:05 ` Emanuel Berg
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