Re: Possible to conditionally bind variable?

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

Wow! It works! 

So, I forgot the funcall my first time and it didn't work; it said "Symbol's function definition is void: my-switch-function". How do the funcalls fix it? I thought the first item in parens was automatically called as a function unless quoted? 

Lisp FTW

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>> (defun go-or-make-agenda (&optional new-frame)
>>   (interactive "P")
>>   (let ((buffer "\*Org Agenda\*")
>> 	(some-other-buffer "*scratch*")
>> 	(my-switch-function (if new-frame ;; is there some way to do this?
>> 				'(switch-to-other-buffer)
>> 				'(switch-to-buffer)))
>>     (if (get-buffer buffer)
>> 	(my-switch-function buffer)
>> 	(my-switch-function some-other-buffer))))) 
>
> untested :
>
> (defun go-or-make-agenda (&optional new-frame)
>   (interactive "P")
>   (let ((buffer "\*Org Agenda\*")
> 	(some-other-buffer "*scratch*")
> 	(my-switch-function (if new-frame ;; is there some way to do this?
> 				'switch-to-buffer-other-frame
>                               'switch-to-buffer)))
>     (if (get-buffer buffer)
>         (funcall my-switch-function buffer)
>       (funcall my-switch-function some-other-buffer))))
>
> HTH,