Re: Some questions of a newbie

[Cecil Westerhof]

Joost Kremers wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>
>>> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>>>         (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>>>> 
>>>> This gives a:
>>>>   Symbol's function definition is void: setq x-select-enable-clipboard
>>>>   t
>>> 
>>> Really?  You put it in .emacs ?
>>
>> Yes. Could it be because I still use 21.3.1?
> 
> i suspect your parentheses aren't balanced or you have too many of them.
> if emacs didn't know about x-select-enable-clipboard as a variable, it
> would just create it as soon as you call setq on it.
> 
> rather, what emacs is telling you is that there is a *function* it doesn't
> know about. emacs seems to think that `setq x-select-enable-clipboard t'
> is supposed to be a function. that's usually what you get when you do:
> 
> ((setq some-var blah))
> 
> rather than
> 
> (setq some-var blah)

In .emacs I had:
  (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)