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From: Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net>
Subject: Simple elisp question
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:47:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uejvxr9sa.fsf@HY56D61.pg.com> (raw)

Here's a basic elisp question:

I want to use the value of a variable within a list, rather than the
name of the variable. How do I do this? Here's the code in question.

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nntp "news_server"))

I want to replace the hard-coded "news_server" with the value of a
variable I've defined called my_news_server defined with
  (setq my_news_server "news_server")

I apologize for the basic nature of the quesiton, but I've not been
able to find an answer in the elisp manual.

- Chris


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             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-03 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-03 17:47 Chris McMahan [this message]
2006-08-03 18:56 ` Simple elisp question David Hansen
2006-08-03 20:20 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-08-04 13:53 ` Chris McMahan
2006-08-04 14:51   ` Chris McMahan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-29 18:08 simple " Jeffery B. Rancier

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