From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: string to symbol Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:02:45 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87skgabkje.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <8e9443a2-414f-4849-94ed-ff187b810fe4@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249207826 6856 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 10:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:10:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 02 12:10:20 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 1MXY1B-0001d6-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:10:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXY19-0005Od-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXY0K-0005N1-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXY0E-0005Jr-7C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41472 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXY0D-0005JR-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45515 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXY0D-0002d7-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MXY07-0007He-5n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:09:11 +0000 Original-Received: from 79.85.211.222 ([79.85.211.222]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:09:11 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 79.85.211.222 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:09:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 79.85.211.222 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHAwNfJRBVTESlTym0 RB/OwKFivhZqAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABeElE QVQ4y3VTW47CMAyMwwUyTfYfUvG/wfC/ET4B0t7/KmsHurRgXFVVPRm/xglhsRj2+npW98G3+Amp tS5BXxl3SqzcXGRuEyf7n5lPA9jXetNPRhE7EJkzfz8YWnIgBSwW95TK4H79/t4GINKNADWj4PgA DiJX/ZxFDzDXeb4oYMw7kNUvyMzcaj3ioICG4hCKEShkPpwQ49Q05nnkGAQLDFDdExjm0qpowBYA Wi61bDlFU1GW0WbY2dSJYX5ZD2S0AiZL+rPyE19TpMzP2IvNWly+NkuWNgD4pO2oL73IQXoSyVX2 NHna7tgadWRXoCdvf2guqEcvGHqZwE520iRD0/QCYiiTE+U21w1Qxvg6iSp9fbIiDCnSAelDkCVF Vn+HekqXzRybwJ40xF4DMRG6SWGK9G1lYzHSxLYEm05GWbpJCB6A9tb9A3BGn2XdwJbS/WuInj74 4QNF8sVFdP3vl+5tgYp4Ev7fyrfFMkXgElDgV4uV/w8TWEeLCIGJ/AAAACV0RVh0Y3JlYXRlLWRh dGUAMjAwOC0wNS0zMVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMM7uH/IAAAARdEVYdGpwZWc6Y29sb3JzcGFjZQAy LHVVnwAAACB0RVh0anBlZzpzYW1wbGluZy1mYWN0b3IAMngyLDF4MSwxeDFJ+qa0AAAAJXRFWHRt b2RpZnktZGF0ZQAyMDA3LTEwLTI4VDE3OjA4OjQ4KzAxOjAwhqNSRgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nKvH9G2geKdMBEC7vioVduEmWN0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66643 Archived-At: TheFlyingDutchman writes: > I want to call the documentation or describe-function, functions, with > a list of strings that are function names. Those functions take a > symbol as an argument. e.g. (describe-function 'shell). Given a > string "shell" is it possible to convert that to the symbol shell so > that I can use it as an argument to those functions? > ,---- | ELISP> (intern "shell") | shell | ELISP> (symbol-name 'shell) | "shell" | ELISP> `---- -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France