From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Seberino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Trouble setting a variable to a list Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413599727 18072 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2014 02:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:35:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 18 04:35:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XfJrS-0003eI-HO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 04:35:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfJrR-0005DX-Jn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:35:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.70.103.81 with SMTP id fu17mr8432085pdb.0.1413599598675; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:33:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.142.101 with SMTP id rv5mr579obb.37.1413599598312; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!uq10no12831271igb.0!news-out.google.com!bc9ni31795igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no7130756igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.193.13.167; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.193.13.167 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:33:18 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208213 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:100489 Archived-At: I tried to set the following variable to a list of strings.... (setq buffers-to-skip '("*scratch*", "*Messages*", "*Echo Area 0*", "*Echo Area 1*", "*Minibuf-0*", "*Minibuf-1*", "*Buffer List*")) When I tried to use it and debug the problem I saw the list looked like this... ("*scratch*" (\, "*Messages*") (\, "*Echo Area 0*") (\, "*Echo Area 1*") (\, "*Minibuf-0*") (\, "*Minibuf-1*") (\, "*Buffer List*")) Why the \'s showed up?