From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: inserting a cons cell returned by a function
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:46:07 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 at 12:46 PM, Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > Have made a function navcons that returns a cons cell.
> >
> > Whilst this works
> >
> > (insert (format " /* %s\n" (navcons "/*")))
> >
> > why does this fail ?
> >
> > (insert (format " %s %s\n" comment-start (navcons
> > comment-start)))
>
>
> The error you get might explain it. - Joel
The problem happened when using comment-start, a buffer-local
variable when I changed to a new buffer in fundamental-mode.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-13 19:09 inserting a cons cell returned by a function Heime
2024-08-14 0:46 ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-14 10:46 ` Heime [this message]
2024-08-14 10:56 ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-14 11:19 ` Heime
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