From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs lisp - unable to write a function maker
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:31:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d3ers2ba.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 47D4EF93ED6C47B8AD53845AECED59D4@us.oracle.com
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Well, not quite - the OP quoted the function symbol, indicating that s?he would
> pass something that needs to be eval'd. If that's rally part of the requirement,
> then:
> (defmacro makeAbrevFun (name val)
> `(defun ,(eval name) () (insert ,val)))
> (makeAbrevFun 'aa "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa")
> In both cases: (symbol-function 'aa) gives:
> (lambda () (insert "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa"))
On a related note - how do I proceed if I do not want to
create a macro that creates a function, but create multiple
functions directly? For example, after some trial and error
my ~/.emacs ended up with (paraphrased):
| (dolist (i '(("once" . 1)
| ("twice" . 2)
| ("thrice" . 3)))
| (fset (intern (concat "tl-say-" (downcase (car i))))
| `(lambda (s)
| ,(concat "Say S only " (car i) ".")
| (interactive "sWhat to message: ")
| (dotimes (j ,(cdr i))
| (message "I say it only %s: %s." ,(car i) s)))))
I didn't manage to use defun as I got stuck in quoting and
non-quoting "magic".
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-16 8:46 emacs lisp - unable to write a function maker C K Kashyap
2011-09-16 8:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-09-16 9:26 ` C K Kashyap
2011-09-16 9:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-09-16 9:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-16 10:17 ` C K Kashyap
2011-09-16 11:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-16 14:06 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-23 15:31 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2011-09-23 16:43 ` Drew Adams
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