From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>,
Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
"'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'"
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Operation of format-mode-line
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:48:17 +0000 [thread overview]
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> > > If I hardwire the value with '(:eval (vodil-tkbfn-ellipses 13))
> things
> > do work,
> > > but not when I try to apply a user defined value using a variable
> via
> > a function.
> > >
> > > This fails
> > >
> > > (defun vodil-tkbfn (wmax)
> > > (setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification
> > > '(:eval (vodil-tkbfn-ellipses wmax))))
> > >
> > > (vodil-tkbfn 13)
> >
> > It seems that you're onto something. Now go read "(elisp) Backquote"
> > (or cheat with Chistopher Dimech answer). The former will be more
> > valuable.
>
> Right.
> This is one of the most common questions.
> It's posed here, with the answer:
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/7481/how-to-evaluate-the-
> variables-before-adding-them-to-a-list
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2024-07-22 21:58 Operation of format-mode-line Heime
2024-07-22 23:35 ` Heime
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2024-07-28 20:48 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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