From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glen Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: a little help with basic elisp Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:47:04 GMT Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424415032 10211 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2015 06:50:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:50:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 20 07:50:32 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YOhPx-000658-WB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:50:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59274 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOhPx-0007Fu-8R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:50:29 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!81.171.118.61.MISMATCH!peer01.fr7!news.highwinds-media.com!post01.fr7!fx25.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. X-Received-Body-CRC: 234614925 X-Received-Bytes: 1837 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210538 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102815 Archived-At: Hi everyone I'm having trouble with the basics of lisp, and I'd like some help understanding and correcting what I am doing wrong in the following mce: (defun gas-push-sr-pair () "I want to add a apair consisting of a the string I prompted for at the mini-buffer, and the string yo" (interactive) (let (to-string) (setq to-string (read-from-minibuffer (concat (thing-at-point 'symbol) " to: "))) (add-to-list 'gas-sr-stack '(to-string . "yo") ) ) ) When I run this, and do (insert (pop gas-sr-stack)), I get the following: gas-pop-word: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, (to-string . "yo") >From this I can see that I probably can't insert a char-or-string-p. I guess I can figure that out -- it's not really part of my end goal problem anyway. What's tripping me up is it seems that the values stored in the char-or- string-p are to-string and "yo". I wanted to store the value which is currently in to-string, and "yo". Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong? I'd like to understand the language better, and of course solve my concrete problem. Cheers