From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string to symbol
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:10:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skg9ahah.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6fd5af37-63e0-4f2b-a8db-e65ce2f7c093@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com
TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com> writes:
>>
>> ,----
>> | ELISP> (intern "shell")
>> | shell
>
> Thanks Thierry, worked like a charm! Is there a way to determine,
> given a string, whether or not an interned symbol already exists with
> that name?
intern-soft
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-02 8:54 string to symbol TheFlyingDutchman
2009-08-02 10:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.3669.1249207765.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-02 23:31 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2009-08-03 0:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-08-03 2:06 ` TheFlyingDutchman
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