From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unsure of error in passing an anonymous function to another function Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:56:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20150816025351.4645.2209B812@ahiker.mooo.com> References: Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439693833 4059 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2015 02:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:57:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 04:57:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQo8F-0001uH-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 04:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQo8E-0007sj-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52931) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQo84-0007sd-Gq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQo83-0000kz-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from disorder-1-pt.tunnel.tserv3.fmt2.ipv6.he.net ([2001:470:1f04:51a::2]:52068 helo=acedia.primate.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQo83-0000kv-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: from acedia.primate.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Debian-4) with ESMTP id t7G2uwLK019695 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:56:58 -0700 Original-Received: (from itz@localhost) by acedia.primate.net (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t7G2uvon019690 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:56:57 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: acedia.primate.net: itz set sender to itz@buug.org using -f Original-Received: from itz by ahiker.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQo80-0001Dj-OX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:56:56 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:470:1f04:51a::2 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106620 Archived-At: 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. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.