From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5692 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnml-active-file customization Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:45:18 -0400 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: <1127133688.493087.217410@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671370 28478 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:36:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:41 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news.glorb.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k1SoMO1FyExQBWb5n81XPamNbDQ= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: HOME-ON-THE-DOME.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1127144718 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 561 18.7.16.76 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5834 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5834 Tue Jan 17 17:35:41 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5692 Archived-At: Albert Reiner 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