Re: Simple elisp question

[Chris McMahan]

Oops! Helps to test things out before posting.

Here's the final entry in my gnus file. I've used the other syntax
here as an example as well for my own reference.

;;; my_news_server and my_news_ports are set in the ~/.emacs file
(setq gnus-select-method
      (list 'nntp my_news_server
            (list 'nntp-port-number my_news_port)))

; alternate syntax for setting the list
;(setq gnus-select-method
;      `(nntp ,my_news_server
;               `(nntp-port-number ,my_news_port)))


thanks to all who helped!!

- Chris

Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net> writes:

> 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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