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Re: emacs lisp confusion using append


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: emacs lisp confusion using append
Date: 05 Jun 2003 10:20:24 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

> (defun append-path (orig-path path)
>   "Appends PATH to ORIG-PATH. PATH is a string and ORIG-PATH is a variable.
> If ORIG-PATH is not defined, returns nil."
>   (if (boundp 'orig-path)
>       (setq orig-path (append orig-path (list (expand-file-name path))))
>     nil))

You're confusing variable names and variable values.


        Stefan


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