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From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List-of-lists data structure
Date: 13 Apr 2014 07:49:43 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnlkkgcn.bqd.joost.m.kremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19516.1397327481.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Jacob Gerlach wrote:
> However, if I try to expand the list:
>
> (setq name-and-keyword-list
>       '("pFoo" ("foo" "bar" "baz"))
>       '("pBar" ("apples" "pears" "orange")))
>
> Building the list gives:
> Wrong type argument: symbolp, (quote ("pBar" ("apples" "pears"
> "orange")))

The error message (which IMHO is a bit cryptic), says that it is
expecting a symbol but getting a list. The point is, your setq is wrong.
The arguments of setq need to be pairs of [symbol value]. You specify a
symbol and then two lists. What you (apparently) want is a list of
lists:

(setq name-and-keyword-list
      '(("pFoo" ("foo" "bar" "baz"))
        ("pBar" ("apples" "pears" "orange"))))

However, I was wondering the same thing as Stefan: why not use the
=-sign to anchor your font-lock entry? Seems much easier.

-- 
Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


       reply	other threads:[~2014-04-13  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.19516.1397327481.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-13  7:49 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2014-04-13 18:44   ` List-of-lists data structure Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-13 18:59     ` Joost Kremers
2014-04-12 13:46 Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-12 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-13  8:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found] ` <mailman.19545.1397376560.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-13 18:47   ` Jacob Gerlach

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