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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Need help with macros
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:40:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874omzi6n9.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> (raw)

I am trying to make some useful functionality for Gnus. I think that I
should use a macro for that. I made the following macro (the two message
statements are just for debugging):
    (defmacro gnus-group-jump-bind (key-binding group-to-jump-to)
      (message "#%s#%s#" key-binding      (type-of key-binding))
      (message "#%s#%s#" group-to-jump-to (type-of group-to-jump-to))
      (define-key gnus-group-mode-map key-binding
        (lambda ()
          (interactive)
          (gnus-group-jump-to-group group-to-jump-to))))

When calling this with:
    (gnus-group-jump-bind "vjd" "nndraft:drafts")

In the message buffer it gives:
    #vjd#string#
    #nndraft:drafts#string#

And the return value is:
    (lambda nil (interactive) (gnus-group-jump-to-group group-to-jump-to))

This is the first problem. Outside the macro group-to-jump-to is not
existing, I need the value of group-to-jump-to not the name itself. How
do I do this? I tried eval, but that did not work.

But of course I do not want to set the key bindings manually but data
driven. So I wrote the following function:
    (defun gnus-group-do-jump-bind ()
       (dolist (this-jump gnus-group-jump-list)
         (let ((this-group (second this-jump))
               (this-key   (concat "vj" (first this-jump))))
         (gnus-group-jump-bind this-key this-group))))

I defined the used value:
    (setq gnus-group-jump-list
          (list
           '("d" "nndraft:drafts")
           ))

And call the function:
    (gnus-group-do-jump-bind)

This gives in the message buffer:
    #this-key#symbol#
    #this-group#symbol#
    Entering debugger...

And the debug output starts with:
    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp this-key)

I tried to work with symbol-value, but that did not work.

What do I need to do to get this working?

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof


             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-06 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-06 15:40 Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2010-01-06 17:18 ` Need help with macros Cecil Westerhof
2010-01-06 19:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-01-06 19:25   ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-01-06 19:48     ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-01-06 20:29       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-01-07 10:35         ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-01-06 20:23     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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