From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: string to symbol Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:10:30 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87skg9ahah.fsf@galatea.local> References: <8e9443a2-414f-4849-94ed-ff187b810fe4@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> <6fd5af37-63e0-4f2b-a8db-e65ce2f7c093@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249260053 6390 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2009 00:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 02:40:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MXlbZ-0005Iv-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXlbY-00048s-Tm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jISUvheqhO0B3hSGGioggAHz/RrqgE64HeFxPIyFQcNBbqhehp Cancel-Lock: sha1:MTdhYmI4M2U3MmQ2MGI2NTJiOGVmYjdhYjhlOTk2OTJjYjA5ZmZiMw== sha1:/Pgr/jHOk+KfyYL9vCRwoRGIamo= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171510 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66687 Archived-At: TheFlyingDutchman 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__