From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ask for the value of several variables at once Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:18:32 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86ina5ppxz.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87sh9a36pw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308160838.GA32404@tuxteam.de> <87fu5aqwml.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <86d10dr833.fsf@zoho.com> <86muzhps3c.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520588104 2443 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 09:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:35:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 10:35:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euEQW-0000Vv-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:35:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euESX-0004P2-FG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 04:37:05 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fkxqFqxYM+bS/VLjbQ5m4+b6l4w= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222022 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:116141 Archived-At: > This is how far I got - next step to make it > work with a list of vars... > > (defmacro echo-var (var) > `(list ,(symbol-name var) ,var) ) > ;; (echo-var fill-column) ; ("fill-column" 47) BTW in general, what is the easiest way to just prevent a function or arbitrary "in-out data processing unit" to *not* evaluate the arguments and then if/when need be do that manually in the body? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573