Re: Simple elisp question

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net> writes:

    Chris> Here's a basic elisp question: I want to use the value of a
    Chris> variable within a list, rather than the name of the
    Chris> variable.  How do I do this?  Here's the code in question.

    Chris> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news_server"))

    Chris> I want to replace the hard-coded "news_server" with the
    Chris> value of a variable I've defined called my_news_server
    Chris> defined with (setq my_news_server "news_server")

Two ways, which differ only in how they look (i.e., either way will
work; choose the one that seems least weird :-))

        (setq gnus-select-method `(nntp ,my_news_server))

or

        (setq gnus-select-method (list 'nntp my_news_server))

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