In article , Raffaele Ricciardi wrote: > On 08/16/2012 05:24 PM, Andreas Röhler wrote: > > Not to expect is changing the computers internal state already when > > picking an object by thing-at-point. > > That's what is done by "intern" however. > > Indeed this is an undesirable side effect of `symbol-at-point' calling > `intern'. Could `intern' be replaced with `make-symbol'? Most applications that use symbols need interned symbols. If you're doing something that wants an uninterned symbol, call (make-symbol (thing-at-point 'symbol)). -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***