From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string to symbol
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:02:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skgabkje.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8e9443a2-414f-4849-94ed-ff187b810fe4@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com
TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com> writes:
> I want to call the documentation or describe-function, functions, with
> a list of strings that are function names. Those functions take a
> symbol as an argument. e.g. (describe-function 'shell). Given a
> string "shell" is it possible to convert that to the symbol shell so
> that I can use it as an argument to those functions?
>
,----
| ELISP> (intern "shell")
| shell
| ELISP> (symbol-name 'shell)
| "shell"
| ELISP>
`----
--
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-02 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-02 8:54 string to symbol TheFlyingDutchman
2009-08-02 10:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3669.1249207765.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-02 23:31 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2009-08-03 0:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-03 2:06 ` TheFlyingDutchman
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