From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ask for the value of several variables at once Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:23:56 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <861sgtpbsz.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87sh9a36pw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308160838.GA32404@tuxteam.de> <87fu5aqwml.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <86d10dr833.fsf@zoho.com> <86muzhps3c.fsf@zoho.com> <86ina5ppxz.fsf@zoho.com> <866065pm1k.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520605423 3783 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 14:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 14:23:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 15:23:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euIvq-0000q4-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:23:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45554 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euIxr-0008E7-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:25:43 -0500 X-Received: by 10.223.209.144 with SMTP id h16mr600451wri.4.1520605437776; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 06:23:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!139no759723wmp.0!news-out.google.com!n24ni9960wmi.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3C+aVH7BtQ0kkQjWsBJVBanQM+Y= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222031 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:116149 Archived-At: tomas wrote: > But then, in the "classical" setting, you'd > have to pass the names as symbols (otherwise > they are evaluated), as in > > (echo-vars 'foo 'bar 'meep 'boop) Yes, that's what I wrote: ;; (echo-vars 'fill-column 'buffer-file-name) However much "symbols" that is, quoted literals at best. No, here is one ocasion macros should do it. Holly would if she could... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573