From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setq-local: Wrong number of arguments
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 09:59:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-a60f7886-5d4c-4e9d-820a-6c479f62fa6a-1620115147585@3c-app-mailcom-bs02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8dr56gl.fsf@fastmail.fm>
If he was using the older Emacs 25, that error will show up when
trying to set two local variables.
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2021 at 6:47 PM
> From: "Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: setq-local: Wrong number of arguments
>
>
> On Mon, May 03 2021, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > I am gutting an error saying
> >
> > setq-local: Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 4
> >
> > Have no idea what it means.
>
> The message means that you're calling a function that takes between two and two
> arguments but you're passing it four. Whether this function is indeed
> `setq-local` is doubtful, because `setq-local` can take more than two arguments,
> as long as it has an ever number of arguments and each odd argument is a symbol.
>
> I can't see anything obviously wrong with the code you posted (though I may well
> be overlooking something...) If it were me, this would probably be the point
> where I start edebug...
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>
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2021-05-03 21:30 setq-local: Wrong number of arguments Christopher Dimech
2021-05-04 6:47 ` Joost Kremers
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2021-05-04 7:59 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2021-05-04 8:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-04 8:14 ` Emacs is stable software Jean Louis
2021-05-04 8:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-04 9:03 ` tomas
2021-05-04 9:15 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05 6:26 ` setq-local: Wrong number of arguments Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 6:32 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05 8:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 9:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05 10:01 ` Christopher Dimech
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2021-05-05 10:48 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 11:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 15:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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