Re: Elisp newbie string to symbol help

[Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu>]

Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for!

On 3/7/19 12:08 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu> writes:
>
>> I vaguely understand that it is expecting a symbol not a string and
>> I've tried passing the string to make-symbol but that just changed the
>> error to "Undefined Custom theme spacemacs-dark"
> `make-symbol' returns an uninterned symbol which is different from the
> symbol you want (though it has the same name).  You want `intern' or
> `intern-soft'.  For the details see the manual.
>
> Michael.