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After 3 years as a devoted user of emacs I've finally gotten around to
making a diligent effort to learn elisp, and in the process I'm
translating all my named macros into real defuns, and improving most
of them in the process. I started with 80-90 of them, and I'm down to
the last 4 or 5. (Yay for me.) However ...

There's something I haven't gotten to yet and haven't quite figured
out how to do: I have two functions where I need to put the word at
point into a variable because that word needs to be the argument to a
command. The functions allow me to put my cursor on a word and change
the background or foreground colors to that word. How do I put point
before the word blue (for example) and make that word the argument to
x-background-color (or x-foreground-color)?

Please don't reply that I should buy and read the manual (the usual
response I get from a lot of people), unless you can cite a page. I
have it, including in texinfo format, am reading it, and can't find
what I need to know because I don't know quite what to look for.

Thanks much.

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