Re: [Ebib-users] error at startup

[Abel M. <abe...@fr...>]

Dear Joost,

Thank you for your quick answer! I've replaced add-to-listq as you've
suggested. Now I'm getting this answer when I load ebib:

Symbol's function definition is void: defentry

It doesn't look that bad #8^) but it doesn't work yet. 

Regards,


On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:59:23AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I'm trying ebib with emacs 21.4.1 under a NetBSD environment. `ebib.el' is
> > in the load-path. As I load ebib I get the following message:
> > 
> > Wrong number of arguments: #[(list-var element &optional append) "^H    J\235\203
> > ^@      J\207
> > \203^X^@\302    J^HC\"\202^\^@^H        JBL\207" [element list-var append] 4 1381158]\
> > , 4
> 
> Mmm... that doesn't look good. ;-)
>  
> > Really I can't figure out how to work in out. Any idea?
> 
> Well, it seems that a fear I had is now becoming reality... I suspect the
> problem is with the macro add-to-listq. In Emacs 22, add-to-list allows an
> optional argument that XEmacs doesn't allow. I defined add-to-listq to work
> around this. Now it seems that Emacs 21 also doesn't know about this
> argument...
> 
> A quick fix would be to replace the definition of add-to-listq in the
> source file with the following (it appears at the top of the file, directly
> after the license and copyright notice):
> 
> (defmacro add-to-listq (listvar element &optional append fn)
>   (if (or (featurep 'xemacs)
> 	  (string< emacs-version "22"))
>       `(add-to-list (quote ,listvar) ,element ,append)
>     `(add-to-list (quote ,listvar) ,element ,append ,fn)))
> 
> Not sure if this is the best way to test for the version of Emacs, but it
> should work for you.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- 
> Joost Kremers, PhD
> University of Cologne
> Institute for German Language and Literature
> Albertus Magnus Platz
> 50923 Cologne, Germany
> Tel. +49 221 / 4703807
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