From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine Date: 05 Feb 2003 01:50:52 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E404D04.7060800@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044406516 29581 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 00:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:55:16 +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 18gDqM-0007gz-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:55:14 +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 18gDrL-0002J4-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:56:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1044406252 00 11700 gCxdE02TSGA2Fq 030205 00:50:52 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109804 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:6312 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6312 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