From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diary file variables are ignored in emacs and in calendar.el Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: <462D9BCB.4010404@speakeasy.net> References: <0u4pn7nace.fsf@xoc2.stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177394160 28645 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 05:56:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:56:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 07:55:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HgE0I-0005nP-Cp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:55:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgE5l-0003Ck-RU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgE5O-00037h-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgE5M-000379-RW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgE5M-000373-Ig for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.3]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgDzs-0002N8-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 31456 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2007 05:55:25 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Apr 2007 05:55:25 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0pre (X11/20070214) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43041 Archived-At: On 04/23/2007 06:23 PM somebody named Glenn Morris wrote: > ken wrote: > >> If it matters, I know that .emacs successfully executed code lower >> down in .emacs than the above setq line. > > Then I have a hard time seeing how you could get this error. > > .... Seems I was suffering from semicolon blindness, i.e., the above statement I made isn't true, i.e., there is an error in .emacs which caused it to bail before my redefinition of the variable diary-file: (define-mail-alias weasels ripped.my@flesh.com) Just looking at it and pondering elisp as hard as I can, I imagine it must need a quote or two somewhere. Being ever the elisp neophyte though, I can't say where or what kind. define-mail-alias is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `mailalias.el'. (define-mail-alias name definition &optional from-mailrc-file) Define name as a mail alias that translates to definition. This means that sending a message to name will actually send to definition. .... gives me no clue as to syntax (though "me" might be the pivotal term here). What's da fix?? tnx++ -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.