From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp newbie string to symbol help
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:08:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgvy8ve0.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b0ec3c9-dfb5-fc9a-df6b-d5debc786b5d@mtu.edu> (Thomas Ingram's message of "Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:36:57 -0500")
Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu> writes:
> I vaguely understand that it is expecting a symbol not a string and
> I've tried passing the string to make-symbol but that just changed the
> error to "Undefined Custom theme spacemacs-dark"
`make-symbol' returns an uninterned symbol which is different from the
symbol you want (though it has the same name). You want `intern' or
`intern-soft'. For the details see the manual.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-07 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-07 16:36 Elisp newbie string to symbol help Thomas Ingram
2019-03-07 17:08 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2019-03-07 17:22 ` Thomas Ingram
2019-03-08 5:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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