Re: ask for the value of several variables at once

[Emanuel Berg]

Uwe Brauer wrote:

>> (defun my-ask-mail-yank () (interactive)
>> (mapconcat (lambda (sym) (format "%s: %s"
>> sym (symbol-value sym)))
>> '(sc-citation-leader
>> sc-reference-tag-string
>> message-yank-cited-prefix
>> message-yank-prefix) "\n"))
>
> Thanks, I just tried it out but it does not
> return anything neither in the minibuffer nor
> in the message buffer.
>
> What do I miss?

What is missing here is explicit output as it
only returns the correct answer, and for
interactive calls that doesn't show. Call it
from Elisp (evaluate the form) and you'll see.

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