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From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: convert strings to symbol
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:27:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5gpmrwb.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1K8ENJ-0000gA-Ij@www7.emo.freenet-rz.de

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:03:57 +0200 alruccaba@justmail.de wrote:

> Does someone have an idea how to convert a string object to a symbol?

`intern' or `intern-soft'.

David





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-16 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-16 13:03 convert strings to symbol alruccaba
2008-06-16 13:17 ` Nicholas Sandow
2008-06-16 13:27 ` David Hansen [this message]
2008-06-16 14:16 ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found] ` <mailman.13394.1213625735.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-16 14:48   ` David Kastrup
2008-06-16 16:48     ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13405.1213634862.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-16 17:12       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-20 14:25         ` Andreas Röhler

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