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Emacs internals + lisp guru question (with an error corrected)
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gnuist006 |
Subject: |
Emacs internals + lisp guru question (with an error corrected) |
Date: |
28 Sep 2002 23:35:11 -0700 |
There are some functions that take a string as argument.
^^^^^^
Text can be read from the buffer as a string.
There are other functions that take a "symbol" as an argument.
A string can be converted to a symbol.
However, when symbol is provided to the function by converting a string
it is not working.
For example:
(describe-function quoted-SYMBOL) works
eg (describe-function 'describe-function)
(make-symbol "describe-function") works
but
(describe-function (make-symbol "describe-function")) is not working.
Is there a way to fix it?
How can we get the code of describe-function?
What is the meaning of the gibberish from
(insert (format "%s" (symbol-function 'describe-function) ))
What is out there to learn more about emacs/emacs_lisp and become more
sophisticated?
Many thanks to the gurus and novices for their very kind contributions.
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