From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple elisp question Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:20:17 -0700 Message-ID: <87lkq56072.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154636882 31874 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2006 20:28:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 22:28:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8jmv-0003Ky-LJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:27:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8jmr-0005Zt-5y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8jmg-0005Zm-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8jmb-0005YW-Lu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8jmb-0005YS-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G8jps-0000QD-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G8jmP-0000O4-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G8jjy-0002m8-Lk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:24:22 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:24:22 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:24:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XkEM+XdhjtF7g4TFo6G0sOa8wms= 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:36447 Archived-At: >>>>> "Chris" == Chris McMahan writes: Chris> Here's a basic elisp question: I want to use the value of a Chris> variable within a list, rather than the name of the Chris> variable. How do I do this? Here's the code in question. Chris> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news_server")) Chris> I want to replace the hard-coded "news_server" with the Chris> value of a variable I've defined called my_news_server Chris> defined with (setq my_news_server "news_server") Two ways, which differ only in how they look (i.e., either way will work; choose the one that seems least weird :-)) (setq gnus-select-method `(nntp ,my_news_server)) or (setq gnus-select-method (list 'nntp my_news_server)) -- One of the fundamental philosophical questions of our time is why Goofy is a person and Pluto is a dog. -- Roger Ebert