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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to convert a string to a symbol?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpyq971g.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gaioha$gqa$2@registered.motzarella.org

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
> It seems from the mention of eval quite clear (not being an elisp
> programmer myself). He wants the result of the expression held in the
> string str.

We know what he wants.  But we're trying to make him express his needs
better.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-14 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-14  4:59 how to convert a string to a symbol? sunway
2008-09-14  5:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-14  6:10   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.19202.1221372658.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-14  7:10     ` sunway
2008-09-14  7:27       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14  8:06       ` Tim X
2008-09-14  8:34         ` sunway
2008-09-14  9:25           ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-14 13:47           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14  7:25     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 10:19     ` Richard G Riley
2008-09-14 13:43       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2008-09-15  9:34         ` David Kastrup

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