From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Gnus 5.6.38 and Emacs 20.3
Date: 22 Aug 1998 19:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigyashorii.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "22 Aug 1998 08:44:01 -0400"
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>
> > Attempt to set a constant symbol: :-pos
>
> > Is there something more I could report to help debug things?
>
> Grrr! I'm sure I've seen this problem before, a while ago in fact,
> and I remember that the mere solution was to rename a few variables
> all over some Emacs LISP source. The sad thing is that I do not
> remember which, nor why. It was something like changing `...:-pos'
> to `...:-position', maybe.
No, it's `:-pos' to `colon-pos'. The file in question is
`mail/mail-extr.el', and the problem occurs because Emacs 20 supports
unquoted keywords, and signals an error if you try to assign a
different value to them.
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me!
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-22 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-20 22:30 Bill White
1998-08-20 23:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-21 10:56 ` Harald Meland
1998-08-21 14:33 ` Simon Josefsson
1998-08-23 16:33 ` Harald Meland
1998-08-21 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-22 17:48 ` SL Baur
1998-08-22 18:06 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-08-22 18:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-08-22 19:50 ` Harold G. Stevenson
1998-08-23 5:42 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1998-08-23 10:55 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-08-23 16:39 ` Harald Meland
1998-08-22 12:44 ` François Pinard
1998-08-22 17:10 ` Bill White
1998-08-22 17:28 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
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