From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to reference the current *.el file in elisp Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:49:44 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878wjg4jon.fsf@newsguy.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245930641 31347 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 11:50:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:50:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 13:50:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJnTI-0007Wz-SL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:50:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJnTI-0001Og-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJnSw-0001OZ-S9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJnSs-0001LX-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43915 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJnSs-0001LD-9j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:40613 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJnSr-0004Q9-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MJnSq-0007sZ-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:50:00 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:50:00 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:50:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ESJMDYxfeo3afWstoOQO4mRsT0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65499 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: >> Like this message (wrapped for mail): >> >> (message "hello world -- from >> /cvsb/reader/home/reader/lisp/site-start.el") >> (sit-for 1) >> >> that I use sometimes when tracking down how things are loading. >> >> How can I reference the name in a variable instead of writing it out? > > load-file-name I've tried everything but prayer... but not seeing how to reference that in a message. not: (message "hello"(load-file-name)) not: (message "hello" '(load-file-name)) not (message "Hello" 'load-file-name) not (message "Hello" load-file-name) A few others too ridiculous to print...