From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Assign a function to a variable, and invoke it Date: 30 Jul 2007 22:56:40 GMT Message-ID: References: <1185834175.653370.242000@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1185835944.997796.286880@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185838871 6182 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 23:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:41:11 +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 Jul 31 01:41:05 2007 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 4.50) id 1IFerH-0005iV-00 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:41:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFerG-0005Fo-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:41:02 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net AWK+lz3Z9Zo2ivkrlAcingAqUd3u3NhPId4quIc6bz2pbmki1E Cancel-Lock: sha1:QsOBK8y+hW1xtVxlReMgDxKF0s8= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150633 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:46213 Archived-At: troelskn wrote: > On Jul 31, 12:22 am, troelskn wrote: >> I'm trying to assign an existing function to a variable, so I can call >> that variable, rather than the actual function directly. The aim is to >> have a single point, where I can change behaviour for my module. The >> code I have so far is: >> >> (defvar my-browse-url 'browse-url) >> ... >> (my-browse-url "http://example.com") >> >> I suppose that functions and variables have different namespaces in >> elisp? yup. > How do I invoke the function, which my-browse-url points to? > > I figured it out. I need to use funcall or perhaps use fset or defalias? -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)