From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: excalamus--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Converting string to symbol Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 05:04:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <87czylpvaf.fsf@gnuvola.org> Reply-To: excalamus@tutanota.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3392"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 05:04:51 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwdaV-0000n5-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:04:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58028 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwdaU-0005ID-23 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:04:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwdZp-0005I2-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:04:09 -0500 Original-Received: from w1.tutanota.de ([81.3.6.162]:56696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwdZo-0002Sj-1Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:04:09 -0500 Original-Received: from w3.tutanota.de (unknown [192.168.1.164]) by w1.tutanota.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A56FBF3BF; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 04:04:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1609819443; s=s1; d=tutanota.com; h=From:From:To:To:Subject:Subject:Content-Description:Content-ID:Content-Type:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Cc:Date:Date:In-Reply-To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:References:Sender; bh=0ndU7Q8ugTRFIYRZjjPuHOiVhbMLsqQYtqmhghC5tbc=; b=X7jDpXtdY1hwDVWstReoncjkIbbNwXfcBJNMzhRXGlsVAFye5z3+RRUziz2shSvA jMXURzlTRQjLwx6dRUB8djIYC8ifyI5pCqKtRZ9NprZd7u23KNvozdWFGnwMZGvtB6Z YRqFDUW82zV85an5hosxshR8faiV/bRwZb8jvP3RQ+5VI9Glh5AmdnZaX8Uk3TDAIRr 3PLbDNvL8Y2l+XOK67gez5w2VpR0NY2iOxszkZqC2LfUiOjjhrv/hk1fgYbLz6n7w8/ sMykym+AO4Yx44mqN2IhW8kttapAnTISr6f2nursZ2gnso6KkSjkjWLQhYX2lk5HiXV m6b+cDlE7w== In-Reply-To: <87czylpvaf.fsf@gnuvola.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.3.6.162; envelope-from=excalamus@tutanota.com; helo=w1.tutanota.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126993 Archived-At: I see, thank you very much. Ideally, I would like global-abbrev-table to be the default.=C2=A0 With (in= teractive X...) I don't see how to do that.=C2=A0=C2=A0 When I run M-x my-test , I get read--expression: End of file during pa= rsing.=C2=A0 The function halts immediately and doesn't evaluate the body.= =C2=A0 I'm not sure how I could catch that.=C2=A0=C2=A0 (defun my-test (expr) =C2=A0 "test interactive X behavior." =C2=A0 (interactive=C2=A0 "XLisp expression: ") =C2=A0 (message "before compare")=C2=A0 (if expr =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (message "%s" expr) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (message "is nil")) =C2=A0 (message "after compare")) I assume read--expression is being used within (interactive X...).=C2=A0 It= 's not documented and I didn't have much luck trying to use it (not detaili= ng those efforts here since it's really not meant for "public" use).