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From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string to symbol
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:31:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6fd5af37-63e0-4f2b-a8db-e65ce2f7c093@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3669.1249207765.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org


>
> ,----
> | ELISP> (intern "shell")
> | shell

Thanks Thierry, worked like a charm! Is there a way to determine,
given a string, whether or not an interned symbol already exists with
that name?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-02 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-02  8:54 string to symbol TheFlyingDutchman
2009-08-02 10:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found] ` <mailman.3669.1249207765.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-02 23:31   ` TheFlyingDutchman [this message]
2009-08-03  0:10     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-03  2:06       ` TheFlyingDutchman

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