From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible to conditionally bind variable? Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:54:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2b25kl0.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> References: <87lhpq8l8y.fsf@gmail.com> <87oaum5oql.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> <878ulq8h07.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410443548 11649 80.91.229.3 (11 Sep 2014 13:52:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:52:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicolas Richard , emacs list To: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 15:52:21 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 1XS4nD-0007JZ-5s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:52:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38684 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS4nC-0003l1-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39103) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS4mu-0003jg-Py for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS4mn-00062p-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:5953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS4mn-00062j-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:51:45 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkcKAPmnEVSkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABfhDexIAEFBp5nAYEmeIQEAQEDAXkFCwshJQ8BBA1PiC0BAwkIqx6MIgFKDYZQAReFfIIihQKCLQeETAEEmmyJO4dRhj2DYzsvgk8BAQE Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 11 Sep 2014 15:51:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: <878ulq8h07.fsf@gmail.com> (Tory S. Anderson's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:43:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 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:99820 Archived-At: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > Wow! It works! > > So, I forgot the funcall my first time and it didn't work; it said > "Symbol's function definition is void: my-switch-function". How do the > funcalls fix it? I thought the first item in parens was automatically > called as a function unless quoted? (info "(elisp) Classifying Lists") and (info "(elisp) Symbol Components") will help you somewhat. -- Nico.