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From: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
To: Roland Thiers <roland.thiers@canl.nc>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Run a program
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:43:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM=K+irn5BVig63u+xe1AAhHsLUqUnd4Qfo=wQqnZTGw0a-vhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB5BAB3-2D48-402A-85EF-070EEC256DB3@canl.nc>

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Roland Thiers <roland.thiers@canl.nc> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am a novice programming in Emacs Lisp.
> My question :

This is a quoting issue.  It got me a short while ago.  Read the whole
thread, especially when I reach enlightenment later on.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-09/msg00457.html

TLDR; instead of using [x y z] use (vector x y z).  Never modify
things you quote or you will be confused.  Only quote constants.

-- 
Le



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27  5:28 Run a program Roland Thiers
2011-09-27 21:06 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-09-28  1:43 ` Le Wang [this message]
2011-09-28  9:15   ` Roland Thiers
2011-09-28 13:44     ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-27 22:01 Buchs, Kevin

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