Re: Passing symbols whose values are symbols to macros?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> writes:

> I have a project with many subsystems. 
> I'd like to define a mode for the current subsystem of interest, 
> but not for all 200+ subsystems. 
> The mode(s) are based on compilation mode
> but add customizations for handling local log files.
>
> Doing this with macros seems like the obvious choice, 

Nope.  The obvious choice is to remember that GNU emacs  is 30 years
old, and therefore your problem has already occured to someone else, and
have been solved in a customizable way.

Therefore: M-x customize-variable RET compilation-error-regexp-alist RET


> Does anyone have any advice for how I might pass the value of a symbol (which is a symbol)
> to a macro that expects a symbol like (defcustom)?

Use a time-machine.


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