Re: Binding functions and parameters

[chris@grierwhite.com (Christopher J. White)]

>>>>> "bruce" == Bruce Ashfield <bruce@zedd.org> writes:

bruce> What I'd like to do is create a series of menu entries (or toolbar
bruce> buttons) that trigger different actions. It's no problem creating
bruce> the entries, it's the binding of the function I'd like them to call
bruce> that is causing the problem. I don't know how many entries I'll have
bruce> so I'm creating a single function that takes one argument. I'm 
bruce> triggering on the argument to figure out what to do.

By way of example, here's a way to set a key...

(let ((msg "Hello"))
     (local-set-key [f12] `(lambda() (interactive) (message ,msg))))

The backquote says there are variables inside that need to 
be replaced (prefixed by ,), namely msg.  lambda makes it an
argumentless interactive function.

...cj

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 Christopher J. White                                    chris@grierwhite.com
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