From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: troelskn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Assign a function to a variable, and invoke it Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:52:24 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1185835944.997796.286880@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1185834175.653370.242000@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185838840 6096 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 23:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 01:40:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFeqm-0005aZ-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFeql-00052C-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.184.65.233 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1185835945 22542 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2007 22:52:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:52:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1185834175.653370.242000@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.5 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.184.65.233; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150632 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46212 Archived-At: On Jul 31, 12:22 am, troelskn wrote: > I'm trying to assign an existing function to a variable, so I can call > that variable, rather than the actual function directly. The aim is to > have a single point, where I can change behaviour for my module. The > code I have so far is: > > (defvar my-browse-url 'browse-url) > ... > (my-browse-url "http://example.com") > > I suppose that functions and variables have different namespaces in > elisp? How do I invoke the function, which my-browse-url points to? I figured it out. I need to use funcall http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_168.html