From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any wisdom on 'compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist is void' ? Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:46:25 +0100 Message-ID: <877ii0euxa.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <5e76bebb-6859-4019-991e-f7500a3d4af0@i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201083524 24795 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2008 10:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:18:44 +0000 (UTC) To: gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 11:19:04 2008 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 1JHch5-0007tH-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:18:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHcgf-00053O-LI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHceH-0003Xl-A0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHceF-0003WE-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHceE-0003Vo-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHceE-0003Ge-CR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JHceE-0004qN-4Y for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHceA-0003D0-Uf for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:15:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ppp-188-34.21-151.libero.it ([151.21.34.188] helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHceA-00033R-J7 for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:15:54 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JHcBd-00023m-Va for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:46:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <5e76bebb-6859-4019-991e-f7500a3d4af0@i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> (christopherbalz's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:03:04 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Greylist: delayed 1621 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:15:25 EST X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50875 Archived-At: () christopherbalz () Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:03:04 -0800 (PST) Whenever I add: (require 'flymake-js) (add-hook 'javascript-mode-hook 'flymake-js-load) to my '.emacs' file and then 'eval-buffer', I get this error: append: Symbol's value as variable is void: compilation-error- regexp-alist-alist i don't see flymake-js.el anywhere in the emacs source, so the following is a guess, from studying (briefly) flymake.el: the variable compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist is defined in compile.el. try adding (before the forms above): (require 'compile) long term it would probably be a good idea to see what flymake-js.el offers that flymake.el doesn't and merge those features into flymake.el. thi