Re: setq-local: Wrong number of arguments

[Christopher Dimech]

If he was using the older Emacs 25, that error will show up when
trying to set two local variables.

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> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2021 at 6:47 PM
> From: "Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: setq-local: Wrong number of arguments
>
>
> On Mon, May 03 2021, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > I am gutting an error saying
> >
> > setq-local: Wrong number of arguments: (2 . 2), 4
> >
> > Have no idea what it means.
>
> The message means that you're calling a function that takes between two and 
> two
> arguments but you're passing it four. Whether this function is indeed
> `setq-local` is doubtful, because `setq-local` can take more than two 
> arguments,
> as long as it has an ever number of arguments and each odd argument is a 
> symbol.
>
> I can't see anything obviously wrong with the code you posted (though I may 
> well
> be overlooking something...) If it were me, this would probably be the point
> where I start edebug...
>
>
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> Joost Kremers
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>