Re: run-with-timer does not display message

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Please don't quote your lambdas!

Do you mean in that case or never?

I have had problems with lambdas and both parameters
and `let' bindings.

For example, this works but not without the
backtick/backquote (and the commas):

(defun shortcut-to-file (key-prefix key file-prefix file)
  (global-set-key
   (format "%s%s" key-prefix key)
   `(lambda ()
      (interactive)
      (do-show-file (format "%s%s" ,file-prefix ,file)) )))

And, at least

(equal '(1 2 3) `(1 2 3)) => t
(equal '(1 2)   `(1 2 3)) => nil

But I believe you, of course, just if you could
elaborate some...

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