From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@ameritech.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:45:10 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gebser@ameritech.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044449680 8719 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 12:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gP4Y-0002GQ-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:54:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gP5x-00009h-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:56:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!heidegger.mousecar.net!ken Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-65-43-212-228.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1044449523 4815 65.43.212.228 (5 Feb 2003 12:52:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Feb 2003 12:52:03 GMT In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109818 X-Originally-To: David Kastrup Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6323 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6323 David Kastrup at 01:50 (UTC+0100) on 5 Feb 2003 said: = gebser@ameritech.net writes: = = > Kevin Rodgers at 16:30 (UTC-0700) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said: = > = > = gebser@ameritech.net wrote: = > = = > = > Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said: = > = > = But the main problem is that tramp-shell-prompt-pattern is not = > = > = supposed to be a list. It's supposed to be a string. = > = > = > = > A string in elisp must be some really strange thing. = > = > = > = > (add-to-list 'tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "abc") = > = > = > = > also gives the same error. It seems that everything and anything I put into = > = > the third arg is a listp. It's a shame elisp is so obtuse. I'd like to learn = > = > it so's to do some helpful work on emacs. Several times I've tried to do = > = > simple things in elisp, following books and tutorials, but never had any = > = > progress with it. Maybe I need to be dyslexic. :) = > = = > = Emacs Lisp is not Tcl, and a string is not a list. = > = > No argument here. I'd even add that Emacs lisp isn't C, C++, java, = > pascal, html, sh, bash, or perl. But all these and many others have = > pretty much the same syntax for a string. You can go pretty far in any = > of those-- at least assign a value to a variable-- just by knowing that = > a string is zero or more characters enclosed in double quotes. = > = > Anyone have a similarly easy recipe for a string is in elisp? = = Pretty much the same. Which is why you should not be using = add-to-list on a string. Thanks. -- Happy Gui-Wei 4700