From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: run-with-timer does not display message Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:34:45 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2d2e4ga.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87k37e4tjw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405719326 3837 80.91.229.3 (18 Jul 2014 21:35:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:35:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 23:35:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8FoF-0008C7-OS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8FoF-0002zx-Cf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/oY9sFMxmQxedTUOrg8HPSulorI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206483 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98755 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Please don't quote your lambdas! Do you mean in that case or never? I have had problems with lambdas and both parameters and `let' bindings. For example, this works but not without the backtick/backquote (and the commas): (defun shortcut-to-file (key-prefix key file-prefix file) (global-set-key (format "%s%s" key-prefix key) `(lambda () (interactive) (do-show-file (format "%s%s" ,file-prefix ,file)) ))) And, at least (equal '(1 2 3) `(1 2 3)) => t (equal '(1 2) `(1 2 3)) => nil But I believe you, of course, just if you could elaborate some... -- underground experts united