From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I use a var as a string?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:46:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bn1h1zi7.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2209.1469724157.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Tom Browder wrote:
> So how can I define a variable whose value is
> a string and then access the actual string
> value by using the variable name?
For example like this:
(defun print-string (s)
(insert "The string is: " s) )
(setq sail-ho-string "True sailing is dead!")
(print-string sail-ho-string)
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[not found] <mailman.2209.1469724157.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-28 16:46 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-07-28 16:42 How do I use a var as a string? Tom Browder
2016-07-28 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-28 17:11 ` Tom Browder
[not found] ` <mailman.2218.1469725870.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-29 2:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-07-29 14:50 ` Tom Browder
2016-07-29 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-29 15:06 ` Tom Browder
2016-07-29 16:52 ` Tom Browder
2016-07-29 17:20 ` John Mastro
2016-07-29 17:24 ` John Mastro
2016-07-29 17:56 ` Tom Browder
2016-07-29 18:39 ` Tom Browder
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