From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Denis Bueno" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How come I keep getting nil on point-max? Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:13:36 -0400 Message-ID: <6dbd4d000704281213u7c97d35bv4ae5f7c66bf52c7b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1177785066.923687.99520@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177787640 21181 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2007 19:14:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: grocery_stocker Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 21:13:59 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 1HhsMl-0006k7-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:13:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsSk-0004YK-M9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsSW-0004YD-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsSU-0004Xy-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:19:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhsSU-0004Xg-Bu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.225]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhsMU-0008Sq-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 12so1509003nzp for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V91H3FjYqOR8O6gfcBkCxLy8iDAYwsfqCxDwFBqaAnG2M/0lK0BFs4dt82AR1f2QjsxiQ1/BjPI0dY0a9oIR+UhBs1RQx/lk+4SxbxKwTVIhvj6xWU68v1maMX5QeEaVJFN5Al9nlVJlKZXzxgnk+Dp9IQyFMANkKJYONiplNWw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eB8GZOkNgdK6rrSgC/efXAG3QmcaafWEG6w4HJvpwc8oeqAvPeEEm1nmW5aV1cG97pUXvhxmUmjP2PpDwkyJlnssvOnX2m4w6fkQyLM8Ab4hqlz2M+70Vh1PrpdxdHAq4hxfA7Jt2Tvgw6wh+wWn75lcpTfqOG8MY2drH7cgf5g= Original-Received: by 10.114.171.1 with SMTP id t1mr1440687wae.1177787617111; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.195.2 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:13:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1177785066.923687.99520@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:43321 Archived-At: On 28 Apr 2007 11:31:07 -0700, grocery_stocker wrote: > When I go > (point-max) > > I get: > 672 > > In the emacs echo area. > > However, when I do > (let (start (point-max))) The syntax is: (let ((start (point-max))) (message "The value is: %d" start)) Note the extra paren before `start'. -Denis