From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting variables, argumunts in defun Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:59:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87zh074lrk.fsf@web.de> References: <87blcnq5qz.fsf@posteo.net> <20210213165749.GC5448@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8173"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vC3mrlm/+Vp8OD8Jcc+iziaRtvA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 00:00:04 2021 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 1lB3tU-000214-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:00:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58772 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lB3tT-0002bw-F0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:00:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lB3t1-0002aL-JY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:59:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lB3t0-00006Z-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:59:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lB3sy-0001Rb-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:59:32 +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: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, 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: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127981 Archived-At: wael-zwaiter@gmx.com writes: > Am getting "Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 4" > > (setq-local devi '(0.18 -0.18) > scal 0.2)) Older Emacsen don't yet support this syntax. You need at least a 27 major version Emacs or so. Why don't you ask your Emacs? Michael.