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From: Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: nnml-active-file customization
Date: 19 Sep 2005 15:18:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vw8ll1t8acb.fsf@berry.phys.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127133688.493087.217410@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

[romeomedina@libero.it, 19 Sep 2005 05:41:28 -0700]:
> Instead, if I do:
> 
> (setq gnus-select-method
>       `(nnml ""
> 	     (nnml-directory ,my-nnml-directory)
> 	     (nnml-active-file (concat my-nnml-directory "bla-bla/active"))
> ))
> 
> , when starting gnus I get an error message:
> 
> Wrong type argument: stringp, (concat my-nnml-directory
> "bla-bla/active")
> 
> . I also tried with:
> 
> (setq gnus-select-method
>       `(nnml ""
> 	     (nnml-directory ,my-nnml-directory)
> 	     `(nnml-active-file (concat ,my-nnml-directory "bla-bla/active"))
> ))
> 

Provided backticks work as in Common Lisp (I didn't even know that
Elisp has them), you probably want

  `(nnml ... (nnml-active-file (concat ,my-nnml-directory ...)))

i.e., only one level of backticks.

HTH,

Albert.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-19 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19 12:41 romeomedina
2005-09-19 13:18 ` Albert Reiner [this message]
2005-09-19 15:45   ` David Z Maze
2005-09-20 13:15     ` romeomedina

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