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: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 03:51:29 +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="17604"; 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 Wed Jan 06 03:51:53 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 1kwyvR-0004Up-KB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:51:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32790 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwyvQ-0005Pc-D7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:51:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38288) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwyv7-0005PO-8P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from w1.tutanota.de ([81.3.6.162]:58480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwyv5-0006hV-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from w3.tutanota.de (unknown [192.168.1.164]) by w1.tutanota.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6738FFBF621; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 02:51:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1609901489; 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=tzOgLW/91a0wmiBjMa7JUs2QTa/9LwArciRn7UA0tOw=; b=uXHSrMGR97AGq1BozDRuPYiBh5uWFUN+K5af1nahwF4xCldxWcSf/3BtfzC87OQD 8SSB+kEhg2Lt/SvaH9I3eoVqe4WQYVsWNU8OX6pAYHYcGH7GAXMc6GAjeRf8eQSTk8Y Bww0xripvd92d/4V4QE/4aM7COnjgh/mD8eH81KcYoS2O09olX/a6N/hPVjChOsjmQk bD5BjTzX82pNWGkl5jWJ5vqQr1RlJ5k1RzI1r5u4E5mObvESMskibUIyhWTSZlFnipk Uj/zb6VUjN+4qCCFE5UJZKz/P6bpY/THPKDll084JHnGBWvjQUSMWAR7mGLmB7QceyJ 1uBsc+2DJg== In-Reply-To: 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:127005 Archived-At: I got it.=C2=A0 Simply grab the symbol's value once it's been interned.=C2= =A0 Thanks again for your help :) (defun my-add-case-fixed-abbrev (name expansion &optional table) =C2=A0 "Add fixed case abbrev with NAME and EXPANSION into TABLE. TABLE is optional; defaults to `global-abbrev-table'." =C2=A0 (interactive =C2=A0=C2=A0 (let ((table (symbol-value (intern-soft (completing-read =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 "Abbrev table (globa= l-abbrev-table): " =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 abbrev-table-name-li= st nil t nil nil "global-abbrev-table")))) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (name (read-string "Abbrev= name: ")) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (expansion (read-string "E= xpansion: "))) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (list name expansion table))) =C2=A0 (let ((table (or table global-abbrev-table))) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (define-abbrev table name expansion nil :case-fixed t)))