From: gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006)
Subject: Emacs internals + lisp guru question
Date: 28 Sep 2002 23:18:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b00bb831.0209282218.740cbfc@posting.google.com> (raw)
There are some functions that take a list as argument.
Text can be read from the buffer as a string.
There are some functions that take a "symbol" as an argument.
A string can be converted to a symbol.
However, when symbol is provided to the function by converting a string
it is not working.
For example:
(describe-function quoted-SYMBOL) works
(make-symbol "describe-function") works
but
(describe-function (make-symbol "describe-function")) is not working.
Is there a way to fix it?
How can we get the code of describe-function?
What is the meaning of the gibberish from
(insert (format "%s" (symbol-function 'describe-function) ))
What is out there to learn more about emacs/emacs_lisp and become more
sophisticated?
Many thanks to the gurus and novices for their very kind contributions.
next reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 6:18 gnuist006 [this message]
2002-09-29 6:47 ` Emacs internals + lisp guru question D. Goel
2002-09-29 18:15 ` D. Goel
2002-09-29 7:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-29 7:50 ` Tim Josling
2002-09-29 15:33 ` Nix
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