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From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Simple elisp question
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:56:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wrxveaz.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uejvxr9sa.fsf@HY56D61.pg.com

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:47:33 -0400 Chris McMahan wrote:

> Here's a basic elisp question:
>
> I want to use the value of a variable within a list, rather than the
> name of the variable. How do I do this? Here's the code in question.
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
>       '(nntp "news_server"))
>
> I want to replace the hard-coded "news_server" with the value of a
> variable I've defined called my_news_server defined with
>   (setq my_news_server "news_server")

(list 'nntp my_news_server)

or the fancy way (read in th elisp manual about backquote
and unquote):

`(nntp ,my_news_server)

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-03 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-03 17:47 Simple elisp question Chris McMahan
2006-08-03 18:56 ` David Hansen [this message]
2006-08-03 20:20 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-08-04 13:53 ` Chris McMahan
2006-08-04 14:51   ` Chris McMahan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-29 18:08 simple " Jeffery B. Rancier

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