From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Antoniotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: postscript to lisp, plisp package error - Invalid read syntax: "#" Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:24:34 -0500 Organization: NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076974260 21786 80.91.224.253 (16 Feb 2004 23:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 17 00:30:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AssCU-0005KY-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:30:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AssCJ-0000Dj-Q9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:30:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.nyu.edu!typhoon.nyu.edu!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, it Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.postscript In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.165.110.10 Original-X-Trace: typhoon.nyu.edu 1076973874 216.165.110.10 (Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:24:34 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:24:34 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.lisp:132549 comp.lang.scheme:52588 gnu.emacs.help:120969 comp.lang.postscript:76588 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16918 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16918 Henna wrote: > This help is requested in connection with the plisp package > written by John Peterson of yale. > > I am trying to use it and finding errors. I have no lucid > lisp or any other, other than the emacs lisp. I have > tried to (require 'cl) without error. (require 'cl) just gives you some compatibility with Common Lisp from Emacs Lisp. The two dialects are quite different. You should get one of the Common Lisp implementations off the net. The sites www.alu.org or www.cliki.net are excellent starting points. > > > (1) > I have renamed all files in plisp to be .el from .lisp since that > is what > emacs seems to expect. This gave more success in the next loading > command. I have also set the "load-path" variable to include both > the compiler and compiler/common-lisp directories. > > (2) > I have tried to load build.el as follows inside emacs: > > (load "/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.el") CTRL-x CTRL-e > > The error I get in minibuffer is: > > Invalid read syntax: "#" > > Is there a simple method to solve this? No. This is one of the fundamental differences between Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp. Get a Common Lisp. It will save you time and eventually it will be better. Cheers -- Marco