Re: Problem with defining a background color by variable

[suzee]

On 12.06.22 11:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I'd be happy to understand the error message though to gain some
> > knowledge about elisp.  Any idea about that?
>
> I think it's because of the quoting: the entire list is quoted, so the
> value of mycolor is not evaluated.  You need to use a smarter quoting,
> something like
>
>     `((t (:background ,mycolor)))

Ah yeah that works.  I still have to get my head around the quoting.

Thanks for your help!  Problem solved :]