Re: Trouble setting a variable to a list

[Alexis]

Chris Seberino writes:

> 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?

You're using commas to separate items in your list, but elements of
lists are separated by spaces. Trying removing all the commas.


Alexis.