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From: LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: managing my keybindings
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 07:25:39 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd89c363-38fb-43cd-ba79-11066f706490@24g2000yqy.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvhbmfetnt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

> A generally good rule of thumb is "setq (aka assignment) is bad for your
> karma".  So just write:
>
>    (let ((my-func (intern (concat "my-" (symbol-name func)))))
>
> -- Stefan

Thanks Stefan!

Actually I tried this more than once, but was stuck in error message

"Attempt to set a constant symbol: nil"

Now I realize that I just forgot one level of parens. :(

(Anyway I knew posting ugly code provokes a fast response ;-)

Cheers
  Rolf


      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-10 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-08  0:38 managing my keybindings LanX
2010-05-08  2:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-08 12:22   ` LanX
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1273284589.603.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-09 11:29   ` Andreas Politz
2010-05-09 11:55     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-09 18:21 ` LanX
2010-05-09 19:12   ` LanX
2010-05-10 14:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-10 14:25       ` LanX [this message]

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