From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Converting string to symbol Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:44:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87czyk56xx.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87czylpvaf.fsf@gnuvola.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1lTcxxcWrjtUTujw2i/Ftyijq0o= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 05:44:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kweDG-000207-42 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:44:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48662 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kweDF-0007Tr-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:44:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kweCm-0007Tj-C4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kweCj-0003ij-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kweCf-0001Fz-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:44:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126994 Archived-At: excalamus wrote: > When I run M-x my-test , I get read--expression: End of > file during parsing. The function halts immediately and > doesn't evaluate the body. I'm not sure how I could > catch that. > > (defun my-test (expr) > "test interactive X behavior." > (interactive "XLisp expression: ") > (message "before compare") (if expr > (message "%s" expr) > (message "is nil")) > (message "after compare")) > > I assume read--expression is being used within (interactive > X...). It's not documented and I didn't have much luck > trying to use it (not detailing those efforts here since > it's really not meant for "public" use). I don't understand a lot but (defun print-lisp (expr) (interactive "xlisp: ") (message "lisp: %s" expr) ) M-x print-lisp RET (+ 1 1) RET "lisp: (+ 1 1)" -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal