From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Evaluating a variable under point?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:18:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739w4tjmd.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b3328f1c-e42a-4848-85d1-ce023f3edb0f@c33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> On 30 Giu, 14:40, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>> Maybe you want to write
>>
>> (eval (intern (thing-at-point ...
>
> Thanks Andreas.
>
> I get the behavior I expect when I evaluate the following into
> *scratch*:
>
> (message (eval (intern "mark-active")))
>
> However:
>
> (message (eval (intern (thing-at-point 'symbol))))
>
> does not work when point is over an occurrence of "mark-active" into a
> buffer.
I think the observed difference comes from different methods of
evaluation. Anyway, you should use a format-string
(message "%s" expr)
. Read the documentation of `message'.
-ap
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2010-06-30 14:33 Evaluating a variable under point? Elena
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2010-06-30 15:07 ` Elena
2010-06-30 19:18 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
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