From: Joe Bloggs <who@cares.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: parametrized function definition
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:44:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcazjewy.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14435.1215591337.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
> () "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> () Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:30 +0200
>
> > (defun set-local-key-insert ()
> > "set a local key to insert some text"
> > (interactive)
> > (let (keystring textinsert)
> > (setq keystring (read-key-sequence "Key combination to bind: "))
> > (setq textinsert (read-string "Text to insert: "))
> > (local-set-key (read-kbd-macro keystring)
> > (lambda () (interactive)
> > (insert textinsert)))))
>
> You can remove textinsert from let and make it a defvar instead.
>
> (defvar textinsert nil)
>
> Yes, but that would defeat the presumed intention of using `textinsert'
> as a local variable. Practically, this means `set-local-key-insert'
> invocations clobber previous invocations' state (last invocation wins).
>
> Probably OP wants `lexical-let'.
>
> thi
lexical-let did the job, thanks:
(require 'cl)
(defun set-local-key-insert ()
"set a local key to insert some text"
(interactive)
(let (keystring)
(setq keystring (read-key-sequence "Key combination to bind: "))
(lexical-let (textinsert)
(setq textinsert (read-string "Text to insert: "))
(local-set-key (read-kbd-macro keystring) (lambda () (interactive) (insert textinsert)))
)
)
)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 17:07 parametrized function definition Joe Bloggs
2008-07-09 7:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-09 8:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-09 8:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.14435.1215591337.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-09 14:44 ` Joe Bloggs [this message]
2008-07-09 10:40 ` Xah
2008-07-09 12:26 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-09 12:46 ` weber
2008-07-14 20:32 ` Joe Bloggs
[not found] ` <mailman.14451.1215618411.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-14 20:23 ` Joe Bloggs
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