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 11:09:11 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86a7vhpnlk.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520590120 20709 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 10:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:08:40 +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 11:08:35 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 1euEx0-0005HT-Q9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:08:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euEz2-0003oK-2B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 05:10:40 -0500 X-Received: by 10.223.209.144 with SMTP id h16mr508834wri.4.1520590151983; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 02:09:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!n196no595656wmd.0!news-out.google.com!194ni4328wmv.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: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:u8PbSo78SryExOGqS6VUwK42C2U= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222026 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:116143 Archived-At: tomas wrote: >> (defmacro echo-var (var) >> `(list ,(symbol-name var) ,var) ) >> ;; (echo-var fill-column) ; ("fill-column" 47) > > That's a good first step. The question now is > whether to delegate the looping over the list > to a function or not. I don't get it to work with the set functions and &rest. But I almost didn't write a single macro all my Elisp life! Some guys do it all the time and I suspect for them this task is all but trivial... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573