From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using "variables" (correct term?) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:38:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87egq4431y.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> References: <87egq41a29.fsf@stevenarntson.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423161512 9343 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2015 18:38:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Steven Arntson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 19:38:31 2015 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 1YJRJv-0003iT-0i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:38:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRJu-0003hR-FM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41195) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRJd-0003dA-6W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRJa-0002Ku-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:38:13 -0500 Original-Received: from gateway-a.fh-trier.de ([143.93.54.181]:55351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRJa-0002Kk-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:38:10 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-new + McAfee uvscan + ClamAV [Rechenzentrum Hochschule Trier] Original-Received: from luca (dslb-092-074-088-169.092.074.pools.vodafone-ip.de [92.74.88.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: politza) by gateway-a.fh-trier.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3253421626; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:38:02 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple/simple; d=hochschule-trier.de; s=default; t=1423161482; bh=5ykCHOSBmpJ0wvkpUfhdilJJk7w=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=m75YNTSDYqXXz3p864bzJ3lRSHyFlx1yK/jRvsl7vuFqx2LxbHMWCibX2FzcKocQV 0zvELgqbaq31S93cLPsfXhRaizi7sKPON0qkcX/NpC8x1v22fSCopl9NwLYt5SqBO9 HhNd5VMu7bDboTIc4wBOPJ0BLQWq7MhEmhBau7Og= Original-Received: from politza by luca with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRJR-0005sC-Iz; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:38:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87egq41a29.fsf@stevenarntson.com> (Steven Arntson's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:34:54 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 143.93.54.181 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:102507 Archived-At: Steven Arntson writes: > I'm trying to send out some form letters to various people, and am > looking for a way to define something at the top, like: > > #+RECIPIENT: Jane Doe > > which would automatically replace itself in the letter when referenced I think this would rather be called a macro, since a variable denotes a place in memory. -ap