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Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a f
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it |
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:06:22 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.10727.1208920326.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Timothy Hobbs <tim.thelion@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> > but it's probably better to but these function in a hash-table than in
> > the value slots of the symbols.
> I am curious, why would this be better? I find that when an elisp program
> defines functions outside of the standard lisp symbols reading and modifying
> them becomes difficult or impossible. In the simplest scenario, simply
> finding out how functionality is implemented, I cannot use C-h f to jump to
> the doc string and ultimately, through that handy little hyperlink, source
> code. In a more involved case, I cannot advise, or redefine the function.
Most of these things are unlikely to be done for dynamically-generated
functions that are internal to an application like this. There's no
source code for that "handy little hyperlink" to point to, because the
function was created on the fly.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, srinik001, 2008/04/22
- Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, srinik001, 2008/04/22
- Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, Barry Margolin, 2008/04/22
- Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, srinik001, 2008/04/23
- Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, Pascal Bourguignon, 2008/04/23
- Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, Barry Margolin, 2008/04/23
- Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, srinik001, 2008/04/27
Re: Using setq to obtain a symbol from a list, so that I can assign a function to it, Kevin Rodgers, 2008/04/23