From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wrong argument for buffer name Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 07:39:36 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9903"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 07 09:40:35 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qSuqw-0002Kv-6j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSuqJ-0007qp-HW; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 03:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSuqI-0007qh-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 03:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40140.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.140]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSuqF-00027a-N5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 03:39:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1691393988; x=1691653188; bh=6KTON7Mmd47O1umFqxsOejRmnusqk+wXYLsDkDunOdw=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=F8DoekBJpSLoazIKxbQg2idCaCzfISNZZ9ETCCv/b09FWhAhBhXVtsntIbANxNg8K MK+SnETy7tzHTQdMEAOVes4yFx0WKPe8rIPZ2q3JucDyoH8sCx2lhRuhbjZPbso6lm wA7Mm0/ZOCjju1Dl2f0tUoUCvDICw+X4sXpBwz9K3pa4qY5rOJ/RBq1gDxj191H+A8 9ThOZ9JWr7g6fCXiE6WI3QTnKKFRcwSuaTHpy4GFoWwvOvnoki1p4XtbhGMiwl3vi9 p0+nOq1QNx1p5tG7+/i3I3D8D1L42naiELwjxd6NSrkU8QPUpj551KyIN6kNjZ9PVW liGZXKy3R5rFg== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.140; envelope-from=heimeborgia@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40140.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -26 X-Spam_score: -2.7 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=-1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX=0.438 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144659 Archived-At: ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, August 7th, 2023 at 6:59 PM, Heime = wrote: > Why does the following function give >=20 > Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp bfname) >=20 > What can I do to fix this problem for the buffer name ? >=20 > (defconst buffer-name "BFTEMP") >=20 > (defun estring (string &optional bfname) > "Show STRING in a temporary buffer." >=20 > (or bfname (setq bfname buffer-name)) >=20 > (with-output-to-temp-buffer bfname > (princ string) > (emacs-lisp-mode))) =20 I think the problem is with these functions Where I use (mcode '(macro-adder (* 3 5) (* 5 7))) macro-adder being a macro defined with defmacro (defun mobject (object &optional bfname) (or bfname (setq bfname buffer-name)) (estring (pp-to-string object) bfname)) (defun mcode (code &optional bfname) (or bfname (setq bfname buffer-name)) (apply 'mobject '((macroexpand code) bfname)) )