From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie Conditional Problem Date: 17 Jan 2003 16:19:31 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042820140 1325 80.91.224.249 (17 Jan 2003 16:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:15:40 +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 18ZZ9f-0000LE-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:15:39 +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 18ZZ9g-00043T-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:15:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!wivenhoe.staff8.ul.IE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie (136.201.147.134) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042819956 24285588 136.201.147.134 (16 [139789]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109081 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:5609 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5609 "CarlC" writes: > Hi. > > I have written my first elisp function. (pause for roar of crowd). I am > getting an error while trying to process my first conditional and debug is > not helping me. This is for emacs 21.2.1. > > (let ((line (current-line))) > (forward-word 1) > (if (> (current-line) line) ((goto-line line) (end-of-line)))) Extra paren: ^^ (if (> (current-line) line) (goto-line line) (end-of-line)))) > When the if statement is true, I get an error: Invalid function: (goto-line > line) i.e. it should say "Invalid function: no-such-defun" without the leading "(". Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-390476; Room F2-025 x 3147