From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Passing symbols whose values are symbols to macros? Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:55:28 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87twtdpk1r.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436446843 10619 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2015 13:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:00:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 15:00:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDBRF-0007Hg-2i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:00:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39656 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDBRE-0006h6-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:00:28 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Xfz7VM5I/yhr5tSC5DmEWwINR2K74E+UVpB8dBeffT99BZAPRA Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZDkwNmU4NWIyZjBjZjhmNWFhODM2NDU2NzA4OTM4MzBkMzQwMTIyNA== sha1:p+fFftwa1l7UR4z2QvPwNd5JwsM= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213272 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105559 Archived-At: Doug Lewan writes: > I have a project with many subsystems. > I'd like to define a mode for the current subsystem of interest, > but not for all 200+ subsystems. > The mode(s) are based on compilation mode > but add customizations for handling local log files. > > Doing this with macros seems like the obvious choice, Nope. The obvious choice is to remember that GNU emacs is 30 years old, and therefore your problem has already occured to someone else, and have been solved in a customizable way. Therefore: M-x customize-variable RET compilation-error-regexp-alist RET > Does anyone have any advice for how I might pass the value of a symbol (which is a symbol) > to a macro that expects a symbol like (defcustom)? Use a time-machine. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk