From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Basic emacs lisp question Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:26:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87egvkvb6o.fsf@gmail.com> <87egvjliv2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410359279 5274 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2014 14:27:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:27:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 16:27:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRisB-0007W2-2R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:27:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRisA-0005BR-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:27:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRirr-00055T-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRirk-0006s3-7U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRirk-0006rw-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRirZ-00074L-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:27:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.145.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:27:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:27:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ftAFmFB9Sa6VxuB8AQJeYQPNE4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99782 Archived-At: > (let ((a (thing-at-point 'word))) > (message a))) And if the word at point includes % you'll get an error. *Always* pass a format string to `message': (message "%s" (thing-at-point 'word)))) -- Stefan