From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I use a var as a string? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:46:56 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86bn1h1zi7.fsf@student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469724644 32247 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2016 16:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:50:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 18:50:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bSoWB-00088F-Gy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:50:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSoWA-00021o-MU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:50:42 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:enAASYb2EkhwHhvYBeinnKVrUQo= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218658 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110970 Archived-At: Tom Browder wrote: > So how can I define a variable whose value is > a string and then access the actual string > value by using the variable name? For example like this: (defun print-string (s) (insert "The string is: " s) ) (setq sail-ho-string "True sailing is dead!") (print-string sail-ho-string) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 58 Blogomatic articles -