Re: elisp programming questions

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> (defvar say-hi-mode-map
>>>   (let ((map (make-keymap)))
>>>     (define-key map [left] 'say-hi)
>>>     ;;(define-key map [right] 'say-hi)
>>>     map))
>
>> DEFVAR only assigns the variable if it doesn't already have a value. So 
>> when you run it the second time, it doesn't do anything because the 
>> variable is already initialized.
>
> That's right.

I use defparameter instead.


(defmacro defparameter (symbol &optional initvalue docstring)
  `(progn
     (defvar ,symbol nil ,docstring)
     (setq   ,symbol ,initvalue)))


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