From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help with add-to-list syntax Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:12:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87msimvqf9.fsf@web.de> References: <87froguwpv.fsf@riseup.net> Reply-To: Michael Heerdegen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: BP25 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SJSEpHpevLotCisgEd/biKHuL/g= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 17:12:40 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1t5opj-0004Ec-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:12:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t5op4-0005UT-RQ; Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t5op2-0005UF-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t5ooz-0006p5-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1t5oow-0003J0-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:11:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:148257 Archived-At: BP25 writes: > Hello! Could any of you be so kind as to help me understand this, > please? I have > > (custom-set-variables > '(warning-suppress-types '((undo\ discard-info)))) > > in my .emacs. Why is the space character escaped? > If I start emacs, do load-file .emacs, then evaluate > (add-to-list 'warning-suppress-types '(undo\ discard-info)) I get an > error saying the variable warning-suppress-types is void. You are sure there was no typo involved? Apart from that I dunno, that makes no sense unless your .emacs messes up emacs in a crazy way. Michael.