From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Chao LU <loochao@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use variable in org publish function
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:50:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18958.1290091848@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Chao LU <loochao@gmail.com> of "Thu\, 18 Nov 2010 01\:54\:42 EST." <AANLkTimV77d02wUdE_qd1j4Sx8UfbnnmTdxjyrKk694F@mail.gmail.com>
Chao LU <loochao@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to define a variable, to let org-mode know different path to use when I'm under different system (Windows or Mac), but got trouble to get it
> work. Here is the Code:
>
> ----
> (defconst lch-win32-p (eq system-type 'windows-nt) "Are we on Windows?")
> (defconst lch-mac-p (eq system-type 'darwin) "Are we on Mac")
> (if lch-mac-p (defvar org-source-dir "~/Dropbox/org/org" "org source dir")) ;For under windows, it should be My Dropbox...
> (setq org-publish-project-alist
> '(
> ("org-notes"
> :base-directory org-source-dir)))
> ----
>
> Apparently, this doesn't work, since the variable org-source-dir will not be evaluated inside the quote, but I really didn't find out how to make it
> evaled... Does anyone has any hints?
>
You need backquote (similar to quote, but allows selective evaluation
of internal structure) and the , (selective evaluation) mechanism:
(setq org-publish-project-alist
`(("org-notes"
:base-directory ,org-source-dir)
))
See section 13.5 of the Emacs Lisp Reference manual for more details.
HTH,
Nick
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2010-11-18 6:54 How to use variable in org publish function Chao LU
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