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'.
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next prev 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
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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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