From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: void variable problem Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:12:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87aagl92xk.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300902054 28574 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 17:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 18:40:48 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2S31-00044o-UJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2S31-000144-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:40:43 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:12:08 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ciRve8fXHNUGBwv8V0EAh6OsSbg= Original-Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-6uU0RbXEAM9XF4JsE+ge6EO9FpvikHzQiRkW4gLyMeSaBSvUDgO8jXMOl8S9BDQNxQrWt1sTRcwoQNa!6BEKaXDOjZ8fQC7Jo5QcYqumevEXF0VLlrdeM8ycNC3Pe1LXfQ15UTgEXbbyobrHLD79S20enAeA Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1735 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186211 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:80347 Archived-At: 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(#> 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