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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: How force evaluation of this string's math *before* print?....
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:06:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vg4bee3r.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1034013252.7639.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

seberino@spawar.navy.mil writes:

> On modeline I have this element....
>
> '(:eval "%c + 1")
>
> How can I tell Emacs to evaluate the addition in quotes above??? Right
> now it literally prints "+ 1" all the time rather than adding it to
> column number (%c).

You can do it like this:

   '(:eval (format "%d" (1+ (current-column))))

       reply	other threads:[~2002-10-09 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1034013252.7639.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-09 17:06 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-10-09 19:54   ` How force evaluation of this string's math *before* print? seberino
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1034193309.19968.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-09 21:21     ` Barry Margolin
2002-10-09 22:54       ` Michael Slass
2002-10-10  1:08         ` seberino
2002-10-10  1:57           ` Michael Slass
2002-10-09 21:24     ` Jesper Harder
2002-10-07 17:53 seberino

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