Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine

[Kevin Rodgers]

gebser@ameritech.net wrote:

> Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said:
> = But the main problem is that tramp-shell-prompt-pattern is not
> = supposed to be a list.  It's supposed to be a string.
>
> A string in elisp must be some really strange thing.
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "abc")
>
> also gives the same error.  It seems that everything and anything I put into
> the third arg is a listp.  It's a shame elisp is so obtuse.  I'd like to learn
> it so's to do some helpful work on emacs.  Several times I've tried to do
> simple things in elisp, following books and tutorials, but never had any
> progress with it.  Maybe I need to be dyslexic.  :)

Emacs Lisp is not Tcl, and a string is not a list.

(setq tramp-shell-prompt-pattern
     (concat tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "\\|abc"))


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