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From: Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Evaluating a variable under point?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:07:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3328f1c-e42a-4848-85d1-ce023f3edb0f@c33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877hlgtwhb.fsf@fh-trier.de

On 30 Giu, 14:40, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Maybe you want to write
>
> (eval (intern (thing-at-point ...

Thanks Andreas.

I get the behavior I expect when I evaluate the following into
*scratch*:

 		   (message (eval (intern "mark-active")))

However:

		   (message (eval (intern (thing-at-point 'symbol))))

does not work when point is over an occurrence of "mark-active" into a
buffer.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-30 14:33 Evaluating a variable under point? Elena
     [not found] ` <877hlgtwhb.fsf@fh-trier.de>
2010-06-30 15:07   ` Elena [this message]
2010-06-30 19:18     ` Andreas Politz

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