From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Le Wang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Run a program Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:43:31 +0800 Message-ID: References: <4BB5BAB3-2D48-402A-85EF-070EEC256DB3@canl.nc> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317174224 22668 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2011 01:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Roland Thiers Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 28 03:43:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8jBS-0002Ac-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:43:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R8jBS-0004Vi-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R8jBO-0004Vb-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R8jBM-0001hr-My for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:64207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R8jBM-0001hl-JX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: by qyl38 with SMTP id 38so1879289qyl.0 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:43:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ZHaezDDXR4xQVcaoqVya60bgXSqHavXqaNKFMG5BM6Y=; b=tK1JIvo/cbPROCod16C2aWVr8NboZt4Btx5FoCnCdyraeQxIod53m6pP1mySMIsZ0+ seauVdGUXwuJDcLYkutjOtM89bMtUYc0a4o3AFp2hWG8mYTTtXRMjMRUESVyNAvfNVL8 use+wWGBSk0TrpmTcETnooV/YSF5NkWwovlgE= Original-Received: by 10.224.174.70 with SMTP id s6mr6904821qaz.107.1317174211929; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.224.45.82 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:43:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BB5BAB3-2D48-402A-85EF-070EEC256DB3@canl.nc> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82361 Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Roland Thiers 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