Hi, the documentation of "values" (c-h v values) is not accurate. (setq x 1) C-x C-e values C-x C-e In the above form, values is "nil". However, per the doc, "values" should be (1). On the other side, M-: does work. In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1348.17) of 2015-08-11 on Mango Configured using: `configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.5 --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.5/share/info/emacs --without-dbus --without-gnutls --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: elisp-slime-nav-mode: t eldoc-mode: t which-key-mode: t evil-jumper-mode: t evil-leader-mode: t evil-mode: t global-undo-tree-mode: t undo-tree-mode: t evil-local-mode: t override-global-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: ad-handle-definition: `evil-mode' got redefined ad-handle-definition: `find-tag-noselect' got redefined Loading term/xterm...done Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort my-gnus gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils xterm elisp-slime-nav help-mode etags eldoc my-conf my-lisp finder-inf time-date which-key my-evil evil-jumper evil-leader evil evil-integration undo-tree diff evil-maps evil-commands evil-command-window evil-types evil-search evil-ex evil-macros evil-repeat evil-states evil-core byte-opt advice help-fns evil-common windmove thingatpt rect evil-digraphs evil-vars ring my-graphics use-package diminish bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra cconv bind-key easy-mmode info easymenu package epg-config edmacro kmacro cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process cocoa ns multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 170015 106620) (symbols 48 25644 62) (miscs 40 32 174) (strings 32 36325 89256) (string-bytes 1 969614) (vectors 16 17041) (vector-slots 8 432858 68571) (floats 8 81 444) (intervals 56 198 78) (buffers 960 12))