Re: elisp macros problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ce1sfo$3ol$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>,
 Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Yes, I have been making sure to quote the list, but it doesn't seem to 
> work at all. I've also tried to macroexpand the forms I'm evaluating but 
> the minibuffer just shows a condensed version of the expansion with lots 
> of '...' placeholders. Is there a simple way to macroexpand and pretty 
> print a form without the '...'s ?

Use the *scratch* buffer for a better interface to the Emacs Lisp R-E-P 
loop.

> 
> Lowell
> 
> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <ce1n4n$2gt$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>,
> >  Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Why does this not work:
> >>
> >>(defmacro my-add-hooks (hooks &rest body)
> >>   `(dolist (hook ,hooks)
> >>       (my-add-hook hook ,@body)))
> >>
> >>??
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like it should work to me.  Make sure you quote the list of 
> > hooks when calling it, e.g.
> > 
> > (my-add-hooks '(emacs-lisp lisp) (local-set-key ...))
> >

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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