From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp macros problem Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:15:27 -0400 Organization: Looking for work Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090696641 13238 80.91.224.253 (24 Jul 2004 19:17:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 24 21:17:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BoS19-00066X-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:17:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BoS46-00068Z-HG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:20:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:15:27 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.lisp Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.26.140 Original-X-Trace: sv3-6zSL9EHLWmcSt6/CMOjdkWBaWhUmWM5Pf7jsVW1DeawcmiAzCzctEBug3sgJe5Qhu4wcPKLArW1LuwM!rgfKCxRad3HoS/t8muD2QWKf3KtiK5NabpdYUc5uBECj3dQ4kwYzo+Z80troty58mfT1UC2pSK8Z!aA/yJDgLPlE= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124428 comp.lang.lisp:144138 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19765 In article , Lowell Kirsh wrote: > I am defining an emacs lisp macro to do: > > (my-add-hook 'lisp > ...) > > which should give: > > (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook > (lambda () ...)) > > I have: > > (defmacro my-add-hook (hook &rest body) > (let ((tempvar (make-symbol "cat"))) > `(flet ((,tempvar (sym str) > (make-symbol (concat (symbol-name sym) str)))) > (add-hook (cat ,hook "-mode-hook") (lambda () ,@body))))) > > Does anyone know what's wrong with this and why it doesn't work? You need to use ,tempvar in place of cat in the last line. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***