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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Basic emacs lisp question
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:07:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761gwy2ue.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8561.1410292382.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> (setq a (thing-at-point)) ...
> (message "%s" a))

If you just want to store it in a variable to be able
to echo it (?), you can use `let' instead. It has
better karma than `setq'.

-- 
underground experts united


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09 19:35 Basic emacs lisp question Ken
2014-09-09 19:52 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 21:05   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8562.1410296811.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 23:02     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <mailman.8561.1410292382.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 20:07   ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
     [not found]     ` <874mwgv93m.fsf@gmail.com>
2014-09-09 20:44       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]         ` <87y4tsts4t.fsf@gmail.com>
2014-09-09 22:31           ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-10  0:49             ` Robert Thorpe
2014-09-10  1:21             ` Ken
2014-09-10  6:00               ` Glyn Millington
2014-09-10 14:31                 ` Ken
2014-09-10 13:12 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-10 14:06   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-10 14:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-10 15:45     ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-10 16:59       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-11 11:10         ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-11 11:10         ` Phillip Lord
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8619.1410357764.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-10 21:39     ` Emanuel Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-29 15:49 Basic Emacs Lisp question Matthias Pfeifer
2008-04-29 17:56 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-04-30  1:21   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-04-30  8:37     ` Tim X
2008-04-30 15:26   ` David Kastrup
2008-04-30 18:36     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-05-01  9:25       ` Johan Bockgård
2008-04-29 21:14 ` tyler
2008-04-30  8:31   ` Tim X
2008-05-05 13:38     ` tyler

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