From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Lytton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: setq failure following list manipulation Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:38 -0400 Message-ID: <200604200837.k3K8bcPL018758@cu.neurosim.downstate.edu> Reply-To: billl@neurosim.downstate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145599304 23730 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 06:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 08:01:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWohz-0006pR-3K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWohy-0000xb-Nq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWUfU-0006HX-Ju for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWUfT-0006H7-PG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWUfT-0006H2-Lq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [138.5.101.150] (helo=cu.neurosim.downstate.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWUgl-0003zf-LI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from by dmcws1.downstate.edu via smtp id 4912_ec9a0cae_d048_11da_99ac_0002b3e8d4f1; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cu.neurosim.downstate.edu (cu.neurosim.downstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by cu.neurosim.downstate.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3K8bcTL018762 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: (from billl@localhost) by cu.neurosim.downstate.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id k3K8bcPL018758; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:37:38 -0400 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:01:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15049 Archived-At: This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-08-09 on dolly.build.redhat.com configured using `configure --host=x86_64-redhat-linux --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-pop --with-sound' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: bug or feature?: quoted arg for setq in function call no longer works after maninpulating list using global variable (defun ae () (setq nums '(1 2 3))) (nconc nums (list 4)) (ae) ;; returns (1 2 3 4) nums ;; returns (1 2 3 4) Recent input: Recent messages: History item: 4 History item: 3 History item: 2 Mark saved where search started Mark set [6 times] History item: 1 History item: 2 Mark saved where search started [2 times] Loading emacsbug...done