From: excalamus--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Converting string to symbol
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 21:54:32 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MQ90vGR--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
Hi,
I want to define a global abbrev with case-fixed property t. I want this abbrev to appear in the define-abbrev-table definition created by write-abbrev-file.
To my knowledge, there is no native option to do this. So, I have defined a function which wraps define-abbrev and reads in the table, abbrev name, and expansion from the user.
(defun my-add-case-fixed-abbrev (name expansion &optional table)
"Add abbrev with case-fixed t property."
(interactive
(let ((table (intern-soft (completing-read
"Abbrev table (global-abbrev-table): "
abbrev-table-name-list nil t nil nil "global-abbrev-table" )))
(name (read-string "Abbrev name: "))
(expansion (read-string "Expansion: ")))
(list name expansion table)))
(let ((table (or table global-abbrev-table)))
(define-abbrev table name expansion nil :case-fixed t)))
Since completing-read returns a string, I convert the string representing the abbrev table to the corresponding symbol using intern-soft.
However, this causes the error "Wrong-type-argument vectorp global-abbrev-table" when calling explicitly or interactively.
(my-add-case-fixed-abbrev "my-abbrev" "my-expansion" "global-abbrev-table") ;; causes error
The error doesn't appear when the default argument is used
(my-add-case-fixed-abbrev "my-abbrev" "my-expansion") ;; uses default arg, no error
I can see that (eq 'global-abbrev-table (intern-soft "global-abbrev-table")) returns t. How does the symbol created by intern-soft differ from the symbol 'global-abbrev-table' used as the default within let?
I can see that (vectorp (intern-soft "global-abbrev-table")) is nil, so fair enough, table is not a vector.
If I convert table to a vector using
(let ((table (vector (intern-soft (completing-read
"Abbrev table (global-abbrev-table): "
abbrev-table-name-list nil t nil nil "global-abbrev-table" ))))
I get the error "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil".
I have run each of these with debug-on-error set, but I'm not sure how to interpret the error message.
Any hint on what's going on here?
next reply other threads:[~2021-01-03 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-03 20:54 excalamus--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-01-03 21:25 ` Converting string to symbol Thien-Thi Nguyen
2021-01-05 4:04 ` excalamus--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-05 4:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-06 2:51 ` excalamus--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-04 6:25 ` Andreas Röhler
2021-01-04 6:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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