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Uwe Brauer wrote:

>> (defun echo-vars (&rest vars) (mapcar
>> (lambda (v) (list (symbol-name v)
>> (symbol-value v))) vars)) ;; (echo-vars
>> 'fill-column 'buffer-file-name)
>
> Well but how is this supposed to work?
> So far, for me only Yuri's solution returned
> what I was looking for. I wonder what I miss?

You are missing a wrapper that will put the
general solution to work for your specific
use-case...

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