From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: inserting a cons cell returned by a function Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:46:07 +0000 Message-ID: References: <86cymcc4nn.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Joel Reicher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 12:46:51 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 1seBWk-0009lH-6q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:46:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1seBWD-00022A-GB; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:46:17 -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 1seBWA-00021e-W1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40138.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.138]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1seBW8-0007qk-RF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:46:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1723632370; x=1723891570; bh=E5l+ySeytPQs/dagR15M729z6mOgVYryaOWR1VC17dg=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=kgl/HtJBtJXiprfDoviIFRg6UGaOOkd9r90fT7qs11nFFOPICWg36JaiWjn8iQRgS 3EK40J6+biSOrePMZ+iEKGUEFEOAbfbVOsHviypAw7vTkaXn1RvegtABlFsYo/0GQa Jjtu8Nq6jxNY1/O/ta/6ddZFvYpib1wY/5ntP7uMY1fM+Nwnhr48NCcq0e4nzAqAY4 qFuPavUaYjaC1MvH+tluRVvriordj+vynBReKw4smGEv2iUd5O+ktlisO71S5LzGVx ViJW6zZLbGpO7A9nieBYS4Ms10N2CtbyqZwsYdj7KWbrZtCMLq6GGlEvvcFP1FGIzH xJc7rlIIoRXRA== In-Reply-To: <86cymcc4nn.fsf@gmail.com> Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: c17df8f0f29700bf62d707c0f8d2842d24fa3c0f Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.138; envelope-from=heimeborgia@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40138.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:147669 Archived-At: Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 at 12:46 PM, Joel Reicher wrote: > Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes: >=20 > > Have made a function navcons that returns a cons cell. > >=20 > > Whilst this works > >=20 > > (insert (format " /* %s\n" (navcons "/*"))) > >=20 > > why does this fail ? > >=20 > > (insert (format " %s %s\n" comment-start (navcons > > comment-start))) >=20 >=20 > The error you get might explain it. - Joel The problem happened when using comment-start, a buffer-local variable when I changed to a new buffer in fundamental-mode.