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Package: emacs;

Reported by: igor denisov <saufesma <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:00:05 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 21510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: igor denisov <saufesma <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#21510: output
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:18:58 -0700 (PDT)

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (car
> list-of-ppsc-var))
> 
> but when I issue
> (symbolp (car list-of-ppsc-var))
> it is t.

*Evaluating* (car list-of-ppsc-var) produces a symbol.

But the sexp (car list-of-ppsc-var) is itself not a symbol.
It is a list. 

You are trying to do (setq (car list-of-ppsc-var) SOMETHING)
- see the backtrace.  `setq' does not evaluate its first argument.
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