Re: ask for the value of several variables at once

[tomas]

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am having problems with the mail yank prefix, so it would be
> convenient to ask for the value of several variables and the
> returned values would be in a list.

That's called `list' :-)
> 
> The most obvious choice
> (defun my-ask-mail-yank ()  (interactive) (describe-variable
> 'sc-citation-leader)  (describe-variable
> 'sc-reference-tag-string)  (describe-variable
> 'message-yank-cited-prefix)  (describe-variable
> 'message-yank-prefix))

Try this (I did some indentation cosmetics, hope that's OK)

  (defun my-ask-mail-yank ()
    (interactive)
    (list
      (describe-variable 'sc-citation-leader)
      (describe-variable 'sc-reference-tag-string)
      (describe-variable 'message-yank-cited-prefix)
      (describe-variable 'message-yank-prefix)))

If you want to get fancy, you might try:

  
  (defun my-ask-mail-yank ()
    (interactive)
    (mapcar #'describe-variable
            '(sc-citation-leader sc-reference-tag-string
              message-yank-cited-prefix message-yank-prefix)))

Although I'm a bit confused on what you really want to
achieve, I must admit.

Cheers
- -- t
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