* Trouble setting a variable to a list
@ 2014-10-18 2:33 Chris Seberino
2014-10-18 3:04 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-18 3:10 ` Alexis
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From: Chris Seberino @ 2014-10-18 2:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I tried to set the following variable to a list of strings....
(setq buffers-to-skip
'("*scratch*", "*Messages*", "*Echo Area 0*", "*Echo Area 1*",
"*Minibuf-0*", "*Minibuf-1*", "*Buffer List*"))
When I tried to use it and debug the problem I saw the list looked like this...
("*scratch*"
(\, "*Messages*")
(\, "*Echo Area 0*")
(\, "*Echo Area 1*")
(\, "*Minibuf-0*")
(\, "*Minibuf-1*")
(\, "*Buffer List*"))
Why the \'s showed up?
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* RE: Trouble setting a variable to a list
2014-10-18 2:33 Trouble setting a variable to a list Chris Seberino
@ 2014-10-18 3:04 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-18 3:10 ` Alexis
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2014-10-18 3:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Seberino, help-gnu-emacs
> I tried to set the following variable to a list of strings....
>
> (setq buffers-to-skip
> '("*scratch*", "*Messages*", "*Echo Area 0*", "*Echo Area 1*",
> "*Minibuf-0*", "*Minibuf-1*",
> "*Buffer List*"))
>
> When I tried to use it and debug the problem I saw the list looked
> like this...
>
> ("*scratch*"
> (\, "*Messages*")
> (\, "*Echo Area 0*")
> (\, "*Echo Area 1*")
> (\, "*Minibuf-0*")
> (\, "*Minibuf-1*")
> (\, "*Buffer List*"))
>
> Why the \'s showed up?
Drop the commas (,):
(setq buffers-to-skip '("*scratch*" "*Messages*" "*Echo Area 0*"
"*Echo Area 1*" "*Minibuf-0*" "*Minibuf-1*"
"*Buffer List*"))
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* Re: Trouble setting a variable to a list
2014-10-18 2:33 Trouble setting a variable to a list Chris Seberino
2014-10-18 3:04 ` Drew Adams
@ 2014-10-18 3:10 ` Alexis
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alexis @ 2014-10-18 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Chris Seberino writes:
> I tried to set the following variable to a list of strings....
>
> (setq buffers-to-skip
> '("*scratch*", "*Messages*", "*Echo Area 0*", "*Echo Area 1*",
> "*Minibuf-0*", "*Minibuf-1*", "*Buffer List*"))
>
>
> When I tried to use it and debug the problem I saw the list looked like this...
>
> ("*scratch*"
> (\, "*Messages*")
> (\, "*Echo Area 0*")
> (\, "*Echo Area 1*")
> (\, "*Minibuf-0*")
> (\, "*Minibuf-1*")
> (\, "*Buffer List*"))
>
>
> Why the \'s showed up?
You're using commas to separate items in your list, but elements of
lists are separated by spaces. Trying removing all the commas.
Alexis.
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