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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: server-start and server-name doesn't seem to work
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:49:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl7rw4wn.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fx9jmc0c.fsf@telefonica.net

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> As the error message says, it expects a string. Try
>
> M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> "foo" <RET>
> _________________________________________^___^
>
> See the documentation for `set-variable'.

Thanks.  It might be good to make that clear in the manual too, buy
the addition of double quotes, to the existing documentation.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 18:07 server-start and server-name doesn't seem to work Harry Putnam
2009-10-16 18:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-16 18:49   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2009-10-16 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-16 23:47   ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-17  2:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-17  5:41       ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-17  2:32     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-17  5:44       ` Harry Putnam

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