From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine
Date: 05 Feb 2003 01:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5vfzzczyr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0302041921080.16795-100000@heidegger.mousecar.net
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.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2003-02-04 23:30 ` Loading local .emacs from remote machine Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-05 0:38 ` gebser
2003-02-05 0:50 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-02-05 12:45 ` gebser
2003-02-05 12:37 ` gebser
2003-02-05 12:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-05 15:17 ` gebser
2003-02-05 16:04 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-05 17:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] <mailman.1346.1044295047.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-03 23:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-04 1:08 ` gebser
2003-02-05 16:33 ` bigfaceworm
2003-02-05 19:09 ` gebser
2003-02-07 22:12 ` Brian Palmer
2003-02-04 6:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-04 16:35 ` gebser
2003-02-04 17:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-04 21:51 ` gebser
2003-02-06 7:44 ` Mac
2003-02-06 13:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-06 14:06 ` Glenn Morris
2003-02-06 15:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-06 15:42 ` Glenn Morris
2003-02-03 17:56 gebser
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