From: chris@grierwhite.com (Christopher J. White)
Subject: Re: Binding functions and parameters
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:56:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y955fhla.fsf@bluesteel.grierwhite.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1080.1043762793.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> "bruce" == Bruce Ashfield <bruce@zedd.org> writes:
bruce> What I'd like to do is create a series of menu entries (or toolbar
bruce> buttons) that trigger different actions. It's no problem creating
bruce> the entries, it's the binding of the function I'd like them to call
bruce> that is causing the problem. I don't know how many entries I'll have
bruce> so I'm creating a single function that takes one argument. I'm
bruce> triggering on the argument to figure out what to do.
By way of example, here's a way to set a key...
(let ((msg "Hello"))
(local-set-key [f12] `(lambda() (interactive) (message ,msg))))
The backquote says there are variables inside that need to
be replaced (prefixed by ,), namely msg. lambda makes it an
argumentless interactive function.
...cj
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2003-01-28 14:05 Binding functions and parameters Bruce Ashfield
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