From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TheFlyingDutchman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: string to symbol Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 01:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8e9443a2-414f-4849-94ed-ff187b810fe4@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249206104 3000 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 09:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:41:44 +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 11:41:37 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 1MXXZQ-0002Im-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:41:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXXZP-0001D9-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:41:35 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 5 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.35.35.35 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249203275 11587 127.0.0.1 (2 Aug 2009 08:54:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 08:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.35.35.35; posting-account=9bWHAAoAAAAxSFC_2O_ssTETNW9NhMbW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171460 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:66642 Archived-At: 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?