From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp newbie string to symbol help Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:08:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87sgvy8ve0.fsf@web.de> References: <0b0ec3c9-dfb5-fc9a-df6b-d5debc786b5d@mtu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="130727"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thomas Ingram Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 07 18:26:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wn5-000XsP-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:26:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wn3-0007SJ-AB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:26:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wVl-0000uL-K9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wVh-0008Pi-1n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:08:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:47267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1wVg-0008O4-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:08:44 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=web.de; s=dbaedf251592; t=1551978521; bh=kcRaONMIMiHiEcLzLh4ZovWLPMIikwYFOxajJ37sb10=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=Ea5m2q2VfYf+TxmyKki+FJC9TTCJkzVL0HTsjnqO7uvkBMc09ZpCqE9zDc/sJpsZ/ O+2I+sV3iNQzyCt2xC3+ENe/Z8kIkiXt+2mm11OJ2Ztr26cqtH3GR1oSXxV8hKY+YS O3W+Kg1+cmRP6Z5rkEk1KpoN8ZLNAdm55KGv9WNs= X-UI-Sender-Class: c548c8c5-30a9-4db5-a2e7-cb6cb037b8f9 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([88.67.111.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102 [213.165.67.124]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MfHfy-1hQcGA3rly-00OrCt; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:08:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <0b0ec3c9-dfb5-fc9a-df6b-d5debc786b5d@mtu.edu> (Thomas Ingram's message of "Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:36:57 -0500") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:A9DnFsNQb1QKC8Sa+4ClO6Lw7wma288kcbDITzUQ6iSMFOF1lvJ 6JPZQSdH8rlNyP5eTqmny/MAthH5t3Gjr6CPBz3p1F0ZJjsbjxPp57tFUyXxpVl52MuT2VH dTmWw6hjug9aHXEUgfP0epEfCXQQSzEUlB3O5gkcKHp6tNhtETWzn9mlaiIGIegYpqmE7s8 fQltDfyj15CISSrYNu7tg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:RkzV4PXdYRQ=:G6ARVPuZs+oZhQQxy2kKSU 8MrGyW60uXkJU0Yy/sylZOx6wA5PCfTkyrHoHQZdi8CNHf5FkhT0mBeGR+h1D3+G3jEQ+FtXM QEcLoHMURkWYFzyhM/bl8UT0GDhlUy1OmyFOd1IPqWRyHMlIW3y9kD8u4wxIj/ZZAQY2+c+5z ceBPIo09nSZMKlp/TQ3AHDVrBbSKjkkvINWGoa/CrrJy71l5BiqHRPoNRI5I0KEZma0oSMkl/ ghboTGF5RzK6/m2VuKa9UzbiiuNI+mOBhunRl4ZdAKSXs/JFLzdsZxZL3lOmKDbvNsFSiiwht GcvVbgky/NAQcNuZ3fV66MdDA/h5Je2eawHuTEVO6kkvqPHc6udzGLqqI3aOZAqgxPQK2HWXz jmkOb5/BlvSCUGm1TQN/E06Ne51LjGKg9crf7OEnS8EoToItVMbYJ3C5j07sBk9WoAEhd//c4 oQfsPIeUJWd+1iZ1FdJ2LpgSmwNuplYmx/RcOPZu8nNlEVuG+kaorCKtzOvmjr5RIVLE1uR2N Bxx0SxjcyKyGF0vyabA8cyd+Aw2PJqbhxeRFGrlvBbXCEkFw7hmNAMzktSyXmhirTT7gsz1Yb rJJ17anMKwiKi3Wt8FHNmrhMOXRxpfB301IFtl8Beh7+xFuCHiBn8y6SaBv8tUxecZ6v6NMUx BnE0mUFAo168g5VdJI5AafAW62gch+hR4BQlub/I4zobJ47BBHWt/FB4tbTJyNvxPp0PZf2QK z8tO4E88q4Nfi9vL90P/YBADX1i7cEgrjdk5Ib/8VtEcFuke850oKZWXe3TLjR4K7PGyIm65 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119570 Archived-At: Thomas Ingram 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.