From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with elisp
Date: 8 Oct 2008 18:59:25 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrngeq0li.30r.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.604.1223491809.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Seweryn Kokot wrote:
> Could you explain to me why the following function doesn't work in the first
define "doesn't work". what does happen?
> (defun my-swap-string (string-a string-b)
> (interactive "sFirst string to swap: \nsSecond string to swap: ")
> (save-excursion
> (let ((string-temp (make-temp-name ""))) ; this doesn't work
include the line
(message "%s" string-temp)
right after the let, and see what string-temp is set to.
FWIW your code works fine for me with make-temp-name...
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Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.604.1223491809.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-08 18:59 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2008-10-08 18:57 problem with elisp Seweryn Kokot
2008-10-08 19:05 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-08 20:04 ` Seweryn Kokot
2008-10-08 20:33 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-09 21:23 ` Seweryn Kokot
[not found] ` <mailman.606.1223492748.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-08 19:25 ` Barry Margolin
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