From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Basic emacs lisp question Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:07:53 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761gwy2ue.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87egvkvb6o.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410293494 5245 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 20:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:11:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 22:11:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRRkz-0001Bs-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:11:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51705 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRRky-0007PD-Mm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:11:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dWoVFGE/vag58VxpsPcDsG6dIIY= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207473 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99748 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz 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