From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I use a var as a string? Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:39:02 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8637mt183d.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <9dd02d8f-a99b-4a41-8ab6-375619e05916@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469760035 19969 80.91.229.3 (29 Jul 2016 02:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 02:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 29 04:40:35 2016 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 1bSxj1-0005rG-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSxiv-000710-2S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1lKJEwk/M4Q1W1V1mKgy0wDERlQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218682 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:110993 Archived-At: Tom Browder wrote: > Duh, no I didn't! Then it does work! (I > should be evaling the buffer for the > experimenting I'm doing.) You can, with `load-file' and then RET (no input data implies the current buffer), but it is more to the point to use either `eval-last-sexp' (C-x C-e) or `eval-defun' which I have C-m. -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 58 Blogomatic articles -