From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to put this in a macro Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:38:09 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87d3xywpm6.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> References: <87pr1zw164.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273008589 16899 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 21:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:29:49 +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 May 04 23:29:47 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9PgW-0006xF-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 23:29:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47259 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9PgW-0001bk-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 17:29:44 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nVcMe3Zd0kWYBzsud7YRfcifa3c= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1271486268 news.xs4all.nl 22941 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:24824 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177740 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73187 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > (defmacro canonicalize-start-end (start-var end-var) > `(if (equal ,start-var ,end-var) > (setq ,start-var (point-min) > ,end-var (point-max)) > (setq ,start-var (or ,start-var (point-min)) > ,end-var (or ,end-var (point-max)))) This gives an error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable start-var) (list (quote equal) start-var end-var) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof