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 09:32:07 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86muzhps3c.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87sh9a36pw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308160838.GA32404@tuxteam.de> <87fu5aqwml.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <86d10dr833.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520584418 28466 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 08:33:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 08:33:38 +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 09:33:34 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 1euDT4-0007Ic-02 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:33:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euDV5-0002Lv-6H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 03:35:39 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.144.17 with SMTP id s17mr153734wmd.29.1520584328265; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:32:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!139no536764wmp.0!news-out.google.com!n24ni7214wmi.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: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:MwvHwIdf35aRNNSqjvg375UfpC0= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222021 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:116139 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > OK, but better (and much more difficult) to do > a function/macro which is used like this, > NB with no string or quotes to protect the > original symbols: > > (vars-and-values var-1 ... var-n) > > which should give a list: > > (var-1 var-1-value ... var-n var-n-value) > > or > > ((var-1 var-1-value) ... (var-n var-n-value)) > > Do it today - in a different way :) This is how far I got - next step to make it work with a list of vars... (defmacro echo-var (var) `(list ,(symbol-name var) ,var) ) ;; (echo-var fill-column) ; ("fill-column" 47) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573