RE: Trouble setting a variable to a list

[Drew Adams]

> I tried to set the following variable to a list of strings....
> 
> (setq buffers-to-skip
>       '("*scratch*", "*Messages*", "*Echo Area 0*", "*Echo Area 1*",
>                                  "*Minibuf-0*", "*Minibuf-1*",
>                                  "*Buffer List*"))
> 
> When I tried to use it and debug the problem I saw the list looked
> like this...
> 
> ("*scratch*"
>  (\, "*Messages*")
>  (\, "*Echo Area 0*")
>  (\, "*Echo Area 1*")
>  (\, "*Minibuf-0*")
>  (\, "*Minibuf-1*")
>  (\, "*Buffer List*"))
> 
> Why the \'s showed up?

Drop the commas (,):

(setq buffers-to-skip '("*scratch*" "*Messages*" "*Echo Area 0*"
                        "*Echo Area 1*" "*Minibuf-0*" "*Minibuf-1*"
                        "*Buffer List*"))