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Re: ask for the value of several variables at once


From: Uwe Brauer
Subject: Re: ask for the value of several variables at once
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:13:58 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

   > On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 06:56:34PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:

   > Oh. That makes it clearer :-)

   > You want the variable's name and the variable's value. Then
   > `describe-variable' is far too verbose.

   > Try `symbol-value', that may be closer to what you want.


   > Now a bit clearer.


   > Try this (beware: not thoroughly tested):

   >   (defun my-ask-mail-yank ()
   >     (interactive)
   >     (mapconcat
   >       (lambda (sym)
   >         (format "%s: %s" sym (symbol-value sym)))
   >       '(sc-citation-leader sc-reference-tag-string
   >         message-yank-cited-prefix message-yank-prefix)
   >       "\n"))

Thanks, I just tried it out but it does not return anything neither in
the minibuffer nor in the message buffer.

What do I miss?

Uwe 




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