From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to quote a list of functions? Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:46:19 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87si7c6w8k.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87mvxug2us.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87vbch1gb0.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87wpwudby7.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150817062952.GD17453@tuxteam.de> <87wpwtbe71.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87r3n07tve.fsf@mbork.pl> <87io8cyv38.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87y4h7fjcz.fsf@mbork.pl> <20150819202135.GA7200@tuxteam.de> <87wpwo769m.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440201024 31770 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 23:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 23:50:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 22 01:50:19 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 1ZSw4h-0001Eh-4z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:50:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSw4g-0001Bv-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:50:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net kAtsOarcf57wCX17ws/p/wAh9NrMN6+7cmy0o864L1PQ74Un6T Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzdlOWMzMzBmYWVhZGRmNWE2NDNlZTk4Y2I0MTgwNTM1MjlkYjBlOQ== sha1:7pFKXs7sf0JpFJGQHSS2xmisuGc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214479 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:106762 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Here is an interesting case with apply. If "find-f" is > sharp quoted, it won't work! > > (defun find-file-at-line (&optional other-window) > (interactive "P") > (let ((possible-filename (thing-at-point 'filename)) > (find-f (if other-window 'find-file-other-window 'find-file)) ) > (if (and possible-filename (file-exists-p possible-filename)) > (apply find-f `(,possible-filename)) > (progn > (forward-char 1) > (find-file-at-line) )))) Of course, here find-f is not the name of a function (the symbol find-f is not fbound to a function object), it's a variable (the variable named by the symbol find-f is bound to a symbol denoting a function). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk