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Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar? |
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Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:16:04 +0200 |
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Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> (let ((h '(scroll-bar-mode menu-bar-mode tool-bar-mode)))
>> (run-hook-with-args 'h -1))
>
> Ahh, not bad either, thanks. Why is it necessary to provide a
> symbol to the run-hook-with-args function?
Because that's what it expects. It has to use the name to look up
local hook bindings if existing.
> Is it not possible to "overload" functions with various arguments in
> lisp?
Only when coding this explicitly.
> (run-hook-with-args '(scroll-bar-mode tool-bar-mode) 1)
> (run-hook-with-args sroll-bar-mode 1)
It is not really prepared to do this, and actually my above trickery
is an abuse of the function.
>> A definition for the purpose of an action is never elegant.
Make that "of a one-time action".
>> (macrolet ((h (&rest lst) (cons 'progn
>> (mapcar (lambda (x) (list x -1)) lst))))
>> (h scroll-bar-mode menu-bar-mode tool-bar-mode))
>
> I'm sorry, I've to chew on it for a while, I'll ask/comment later.
There is a reason why one avoids macros when they are not really
necessary.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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