Re: Evaluating a variable under point?

[Andreas Politz]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> On 30 Giu, 14:40, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>> Maybe you want to write
>>
>> (eval (intern (thing-at-point ...
>
> Thanks Andreas.
>
> I get the behavior I expect when I evaluate the following into
> *scratch*:
>
>                  (message (eval (intern "mark-active")))
>
> However:
>
>                  (message (eval (intern (thing-at-point 'symbol))))
>
> does not work when point is over an occurrence of "mark-active" into a
> buffer.

I think the observed difference comes from different methods of
evaluation.  Anyway, you should use a format-string
(message "%s" expr)
.  Read the documentation of `message'.

-ap