From: Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: void variable problem
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:12:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aagl92xk.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> (raw)
I installed synonyms.el, and it depends on access to mthesar.txt. So I
created: /home/haines/mthesaur/mthesaur.txt and in .emacs access it with
the line (setq synonyms-file /home/haines/mthesaur/mthesaur.txt)
But when emacs loads, I get this error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable
/home/haines/mthesaur/mthesaur\.txt)
(setq synonyms-file /home/haines/mthesaur/mthesaur\.txt)
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<4>> nil "/home/haines/.emacs" nil t) ;
Reading at buffer position 17897
load-with-code-conversion("/home/haines/.emacs"
"/home/haines/.emacs" nil nil)
load("~/.emacs")
What does the backshash in "mthesaur\.txt" mean?
Haines Brown
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-23 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-23 17:12 Haines Brown [this message]
2011-03-23 17:59 ` void variable problem Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-23 18:13 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1300904003.4948.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-23 18:32 ` Haines Brown
2011-03-23 20:09 ` Tim X
2011-03-23 23:14 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-24 1:19 ` Barry Margolin
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