Unsure of error in passing an anonymous function to another function

[Grant Rettke]

Good evening,

Emacs-Lisp question.

Emacs: 24.4.1.

Lexical binding: nil

Trying to refactor a function. Broke it down by my intention:

• Save excursion
• Go to start of buffer
• Do something (In this case just insert some text to see that is is working)

Expected result

• To see "XXX" at the start of the buffer

Actual result

• save-excursion: Symbol's function definition is void: fn
• the function `fn' is not known to be defined.

To address this I started by reading more on Emacs-Lisp and scoping and
function definitions.

What am I doing wrong?

┌────
│ (defun doer (fn)
│   (interactive)
│   (save-excursion
│     (goto-char (point-min))
│     (fn)))
│
│ (defun useit ()
│   (interactive)
│   (doer
│    (lambda ()
│      (insert "XXX"))))
│
│ (useit)
└────

Grant Rettke
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