From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: server-start and server-name doesn't seem to work Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:49:12 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zl7rw4wn.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87aazrp607.fsf@newsguy.com> <87fx9jmc0c.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255719080 6748 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2009 18:51:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:51:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 20:51:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MyrtK-0004UQ-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyrtG-0004kV-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyrsT-0004K7-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyrsP-0004GD-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52781 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyrsO-0004G8-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57150) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyrsO-0008Hl-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MyrsJ-00040N-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:50:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CJ1GJX4l5gWUQFAwTe5N2wQwuhU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116186 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > As the error message says, it expects a string. Try > > M-x set-variable server-name "foo" > _________________________________________^___^ > > See the documentation for `set-variable'. Thanks. It might be good to make that clear in the manual too, buy the addition of double quotes, to the existing documentation.