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From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: nnml-active-file customization
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:45:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y68ek7lkqnl.fsf@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vw8ll1t8acb.fsf@berry.phys.ntnu.no>

Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Provided backticks work as in Common Lisp (I didn't even know that
> Elisp has them), you probably want
>
>   `(nnml ... (nnml-active-file (concat ,my-nnml-directory ...)))
>
> i.e., only one level of backticks.

...except that you probably actually want

`(nnml ... (nnml-active-file ,(concat my-nnml-directory ...)))

so that, in the result, the cdr of the cons cell whose car is
'nnml-active-file is the result of the concat call, not the list
'(concat "/nnml/directory/name" "stuff").

  --dzm


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-19 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19 12:41 romeomedina
2005-09-19 13:18 ` Albert Reiner
2005-09-19 15:45   ` David Z Maze [this message]
2005-09-20 13:15     ` romeomedina

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