Thanks! It helped.

soichi

2011/10/29 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>

> ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> > the wildcard command does not seem work similarly in Emacs Lisp.
> >
> > (delete-file (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1))
>
> `delete-file' wants exactly one file given as string, but the `subseq'
> form returns a *list* with exactly one file name, i.e., the last file
> matching the given wildcard.
>
> This should do the trick:
>
>  (delete-file (nth 0 (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1)))
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> --
> (What the world needs (I think) is not
>      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
>      but (an English (with more.)))
> Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf
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