Re: Elisp newbie string to symbol help

[Michael Heerdegen]

Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu> writes:

> I vaguely understand that it is expecting a symbol not a string and
> I've tried passing the string to make-symbol but that just changed the
> error to "Undefined Custom theme spacemacs-dark"

`make-symbol' returns an uninterned symbol which is different from the
symbol you want (though it has the same name).  You want `intern' or
`intern-soft'.  For the details see the manual.

Michael.