From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: newbie elisp question Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 19:20:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126148354 23250 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2005 02:59:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 02:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 04:59:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDCas-0007Lf-JK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDCaq-0001WW-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EDCUp-0007Up-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EDCUn-0007Tl-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDCTe-0006m3-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.87.122.32] (helo=rgminet03.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EDC60-0007ID-Uh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.49]) by rgminet03.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j882KUtO010463 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:20:30 -0600 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j882KUdx003273 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:20:30 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-66-188.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.66.188]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id j882KTO6003268 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:20:30 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:29308 Archived-At: With the following forms in my .emacs, which the *scratch* buffer evaluates without complaint, (from which I infer that they are at = least syntactically correct) =20 (defconst *vowels* '(?a ?e ?i ?o ?u ?y) "A list of the English vowels in lowercase.") =20 ... (defun vowelp (char) (memq (downcase char) *vowels*)) =20 (defun goto-vowel "Skip to next vowel after point." (interactive) (while (not (vowelp (char-after))) (forward-char)) ) =20 (define-key global-map [f11] 'goto-vowel) =20 ... =20 I get this error message: =20 "call-interactively: Invalid function: (lambda "Skip to next vowel = after point." (interactive) (while (not (vowelp (char-after))) (forward-char)))" =20 What am I not understanding here? Your function is missing an argument list. It should have the empty list = after the command name: (defun goto-vowel () ...)