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From: Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Trouble setting a variable to a list
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:33:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1f78318-871f-4e08-aff5-0a1d3e1623fd@googlegroups.com> (raw)

I tried to set the following variable to a list of strings....

(setq buffers-to-skip
      '("*scratch*", "*Messages*", "*Echo Area 0*", "*Echo Area 1*",
                                 "*Minibuf-0*", "*Minibuf-1*", "*Buffer List*"))


When I tried to use it and debug the problem I saw the list looked like this...

("*scratch*"
 (\, "*Messages*")
 (\, "*Echo Area 0*")
 (\, "*Echo Area 1*")
 (\, "*Minibuf-0*")
 (\, "*Minibuf-1*")
 (\, "*Buffer List*"))


Why the \'s showed up?



             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-18  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-18  2:33 Chris Seberino [this message]
2014-10-18  3:04 ` Trouble setting a variable to a list Drew Adams
2014-10-18  3:10 ` Alexis

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