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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unsure of error in passing an anonymous function to another function
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:56:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150816025351.4645.2209B812@ahiker.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAjq1mcFTf5=f2FSKjBGPuL7OTTftLuCPsjyFMdpZ-Kk5nhTJg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2015-08-15 21:44 -0500, Grant Rettke wrote:

> What am I doing wrong?

Elisp is not Scheme (sadly).  Function bindings are separate from
variable bindings.  To use the function binding you need funcall (which
see in the docs).

> (defun doer (fn)
>   (interactive)
>   (save-excursion
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (fn)))

(defun doer (fn)
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (funcall fn)))

Btw, please don't use that "pretty" quoting, it just gets in the way.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-16  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-16  2:44 Unsure of error in passing an anonymous function to another function Grant Rettke
2015-08-16  2:56 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.8406.1439693823.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-16  3:05   ` Rusi
2015-08-17  7:53   ` Joost Kremers
2015-08-17 17:41     ` Grant Rettke

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