Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

gebser@ameritech.net writes:

> Kevin Rodgers at 16:30 (UTC-0700) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said:
> 
> = gebser@ameritech.net wrote:
> = 
> = > Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said:
> = > = But the main problem is that tramp-shell-prompt-pattern is not
> = > = supposed to be a list.  It's supposed to be a string.
> = > 
> = > A string in elisp must be some really strange thing.
> = > 
> = > (add-to-list 'tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "abc")
> = > 
> = > also gives the same error.  It seems that everything and anything I put into
> = > the third arg is a listp.  It's a shame elisp is so obtuse.  I'd like to learn
> = > it so's to do some helpful work on emacs.  Several times I've tried to do
> = > simple things in elisp, following books and tutorials, but never had any
> = > progress with it.  Maybe I need to be dyslexic.  :)
> = 
> = Emacs Lisp is not Tcl, and a string is not a list.
> 
> No argument here.  I'd even add that Emacs lisp isn't C, C++, java,
> pascal, html, sh, bash, or perl.  But all these and many others have
> pretty much the same syntax for a string.  You can go pretty far in any
> of those-- at least assign a value to a variable-- just by knowing that
> a string is zero or more characters enclosed in double quotes.
> 
> Anyone have a similarly easy recipe for a string is in elisp?

Pretty much the same.  Which is why you should not be using
add-to-list on a string.

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