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 20:36:25 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86o9jxdosm.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87sh9a36pw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308160838.GA32404@tuxteam.de> <87fu5aqwml.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <20180308215517.GA12322@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520624312 29570 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 19:38:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 19:38:32 +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 20:38:27 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 1euNqV-0007c2-Mg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:38:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47657 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euNsW-0007AC-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:40:32 -0500 X-Received: by 10.223.141.150 with SMTP id o22mr2969976wrb.24.1520624186851; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:36:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!139no964377wmp.0!news-out.google.com!n24ni12391wmi.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: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:StXTkyI1OsVr6DB2m1J1Dakzn8g= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222042 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:116160 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer wrote: >> (defun my-ask-mail-yank () (interactive) >> (mapconcat (lambda (sym) (format "%s: %s" >> sym (symbol-value sym))) >> '(sc-citation-leader >> sc-reference-tag-string >> message-yank-cited-prefix >> message-yank-prefix) "\n")) > > Thanks, I just tried it out but it does not > return anything neither in the minibuffer nor > in the message buffer. > > What do I miss? What is missing here is explicit output as it only returns the correct answer, and for interactive calls that doesn't show. Call it from Elisp (evaluate the form) and you'll see. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573