From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Some questions of a newbie Date: 21 Apr 2007 08:18:36 GMT Message-ID: References: <46288bfb$0$337$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <462938a2$0$336$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4629c370$0$322$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177144734 6933 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2007 08:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:38:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 10:38:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HfB7G-00042G-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:38:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfBCO-0005tj-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:44:05 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 7o4Waj68uEhoh9FLJM/tTQ72BnT2pAaRFuPIPyhsnDd8MLbZMx Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147351 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:42955 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>>> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) >>> >>> This gives a: >>> Symbol's function definition is void: setq x-select-enable-clipboard t >> >> Really? You put it in .emacs ? > > Yes. Could it be because I still use 21.3.1? i suspect your parentheses aren't balanced or you have too many of them. if emacs didn't know about x-select-enable-clipboard as a variable, it would just create it as soon as you call setq on it. rather, what emacs is telling you is that there is a *function* it doesn't know about. emacs seems to think that `setq x-select-enable-clipboard t' is supposed to be a function. that's usually what you get when you do: ((setq some-var blah)) rather than (setq some-var blah) -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)