From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: parametrized function definition Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:12:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87zlorh3wj.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <87zlosz4n6.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> <48746376.1000306@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215591363 21978 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2008 08:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 09 10:16:50 2008 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 1KGUr3-0007uU-Gq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:16:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUqB-0003RN-W6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUpq-0003P3-SM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUpo-0003Ne-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42788 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGUpo-0003Nb-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.61.141.134] (port=35509 helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGUpo-000370-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KGUn6-0001nv-Vo; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:12:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48746376.1000306@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:55332 Archived-At: () "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" () Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:30 +0200 > (defun set-local-key-insert () > "set a local key to insert some text" > (interactive) > (let (keystring textinsert) > (setq keystring (read-key-sequence "Key combination to bind: ")) > (setq textinsert (read-string "Text to insert: ")) > (local-set-key (read-kbd-macro keystring) > (lambda () (interactive) > (insert textinsert))))) You can remove textinsert from let and make it a defvar instead. (defvar textinsert nil) Yes, but that would defeat the presumed intention of using `textinsert' as a local variable. Practically, this means `set-local-key-insert' invocations clobber previous invocations' state (last invocation wins). Probably OP wants `lexical-let'. thi