From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Ingram Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp newbie string to symbol help Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 12:22:08 -0500 Message-ID: <214ef399-0fd7-0158-b391-364426130740@mtu.edu> References: <0b0ec3c9-dfb5-fc9a-df6b-d5debc786b5d@mtu.edu> <87sgvy8ve0.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="168268"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 07 18:34:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wuk-000heE-7Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:34:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wuj-00066H-6E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:34:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wir-0003p7-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:22:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wip-0002Fr-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:22:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-it1-x129.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::129]:39181) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1win-0002Dz-HK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:22:18 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-it1-x129.google.com with SMTP id l15so16955572iti.4 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:22:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mtu-edu.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=Z7dhlwNRaaZ6XNe0PVFQPg1FWKXgUJvApMBHP4K6DgM=; b=Z0/8rVH+RzPXJmLXnPLWCNMxb3RxgoVGIr+RG7qL+EzlfzAwz6HecdMycX0Sz2QMK8 jfE6NKRMXkLi+Lum/L61dbsaVmoMEY1+Zga5BLYwBXPSfgzCuKk76IHsi/rJ76aG9dke GD1LFXtBc0NyR/zTs8qiWPHAO3aVHpxkgamjf1qw8GaZ2oOfsKf0u+CnPBUWd+Arh6rN lmg1bBSTwwjW9hww8gG0w31qATS5TqpAEMAa3Wa5TgpFPKEufnmkRkQhLqfVjyt/aobZ hcJ2G16m1MOp+QI3Uf9dg0QTbib2F0pHGTzFQzlP0KxpooazSZAFlM8wNsLvth7xs7o9 9u9A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=Z7dhlwNRaaZ6XNe0PVFQPg1FWKXgUJvApMBHP4K6DgM=; b=doAd4anMSJ0kmt5vBrjh3NsmHVvqGA+XU5nH1cAadUZcEoXncJlIC48l1P1chPTczm jb6SC3tO0nhjScmYFcTDxqQa0m05UmAzUVN0Yep63HjYU9Og1FsfYmSUaCTYow8DpQMo 6LGI4HCOGRO5zinKTEPUY9jmnHKw8SJsRTyetTaBzWDA9HcCAuXMUYhhzW01jpkwXjw+ dk4/M/04zBt/9weXkCQQYI/cQk33B+C83FiAWMYNCqdUiNX2vNMAcDbtwMhUwMm8LWum CPZY4gbmwX1Oj/QSqYe7Lu5ue+Wl+SC4KpmUJseksd3QGCNVxFCmQGCOkgGD9RvGIAqR //zw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWO3TGJ62OXw0cKyyJcsMBfGS2Lg/FKY8q332rE3lJPBSDM9WRA hPX2uGzH0ni6D6lidqP8i57Kq23m2Ag= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqye7jKoTQOok6Mf9hgijeXSYm7ztfkfClTmBOs+swytfpWRJYOiKrV9IYolbEnN+z6EEpQYgA== X-Received: by 2002:a24:260d:: with SMTP id v13mr5610265itv.148.1551979336555; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:22:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [141.219.232.201] (rover-232-201.rovernet.mtu.edu. [141.219.232.201]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e12sm2210241iod.6.2019.03.07.09.22.15 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:22:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87sgvy8ve0.fsf@web.de> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::129 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119571 Archived-At: Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for! On 3/7/19 12:08 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Thomas Ingram 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.