From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: What is the :eval form ? Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:01:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339178500 10948 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2012 18:01:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:01:40 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Philippe M. Coatmeur'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 20:01:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd3VC-0003i3-2f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:01:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd3VB-0004Mb-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd3V6-0004Lj-Ae for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd3V4-0005U7-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:46977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd3V4-0005Tu-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q58I1QaD003325 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:01:26 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q58I1PIs002701 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:01:25 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt115.oracle.com (abhmt115.oracle.com [141.146.116.67]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q58I1PjJ024247; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:01:25 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.186.43) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:01:24 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac1FnyZmVh58LJ0WSQmWv9GTCObTqwAAQwCA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85161 Archived-At: > I'm trying to get some information about this (e?)lisp form > (add-to-list 'global-mode-string > '(:eval (mail-bug-mode-line-all "2"))) > > How can I find information about this special form ? > When I ask emacs using C-h f with point over it :eval is not a function here. What you want to do is ask Emacs about variable `global-mode-string': `C-h v global-mode-string'. That help buffer includes a link to help on variable `mode-line-format'. If you click that link you will find information about :eval.