From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 16:30:12 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E404D04.7060800@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044401698 10945 80.91.224.249 (4 Feb 2003 23:34:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gCaf-0002qL-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:34:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gCbB-0007VH-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:35:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044401411 39516890 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109799 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6307 gebser@ameritech.net wrote: > Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said: > = But the main problem is that tramp-shell-prompt-pattern is not > = supposed to be a list. It's supposed to be a string. > > A string in elisp must be some really strange thing. > > (add-to-list 'tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "abc") > > also gives the same error. It seems that everything and anything I put into > the third arg is a listp. It's a shame elisp is so obtuse. I'd like to learn > it so's to do some helpful work on emacs. Several times I've tried to do > simple things in elisp, following books and tutorials, but never had any > progress with it. Maybe I need to be dyslexic. :) Emacs Lisp is not Tcl, and a string is not a list. (setq tramp-shell-prompt-pattern (concat tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "\\|abc")) -- Kevin Rodgers