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Re: Simple elisp question
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Chris McMahan |
Subject: |
Re: Simple elisp question |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:53:21 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Thanks to all who replied.
I'm going with the following format:
(setq gnus-select-method (list 'nntp my_news_server))
So here's the final entry in my .gnus file:
(setq gnus-select-method
(list 'nntp my_news_server
'nntp-port-number 9119))
- Chris
Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net> writes:
> Here's a basic elisp question:
>
> I want to use the value of a variable within a list, rather than the
> name of the variable. How do I do this? Here's the code in question.
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
> '(nntp "news_server"))
>
> I want to replace the hard-coded "news_server" with the value of a
> variable I've defined called my_news_server defined with
> (setq my_news_server "news_server")
>
> I apologize for the basic nature of the quesiton, but I've not been
> able to find an answer in the elisp manual.
>
> - Chris
>
>
> --
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