From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to put this in a macro Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:12:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87pr1zw164.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> <87d3xywpm6.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273009253 19466 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 21:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 23:40:51 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9PrE-0003hB-JJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 23:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9PrE-0004pH-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 17:40:48 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="+bxBiZT/p0ZLLuDb5H+JCw"; logging-data="13560"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tTMr+V261JhfISo5m6nam" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:peW4yNQqOJZuDp1lawh3+Rwptxk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177751 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73197 Archived-At: In article <87d3xywpm6.fsf@linux-lqcw.site>, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Barry Margolin writes: > > > (defmacro canonicalize-start-end (start-var end-var) > > `(if (equal ,start-var ,end-var) > > (setq ,start-var (point-min) > > ,end-var (point-max)) > > (setq ,start-var (or ,start-var (point-min)) > > ,end-var (or ,end-var (point-max)))) > > This gives an error: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable start-var) > (list (quote equal) start-var end-var) Sorry, I posted without testing. Add another close paren at the end. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***