Re: "variable [in .emacs] is void"

[Karl Pflästerer]

An unnamed person wrote:

> (eval-after-load "sendmail"
>   (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook
    ^

Here is the error.  You need to quote that list.
[...]

so it becomes:

(eval-after-load "sendmail"
   '(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook ...

> Sometimes that works with this variable, other times it doesn't.  My
> almost educated guess is that it depends on whether or not I've first
> opened a mail session (M-x mail).

Right.


   KP

-- 
"But it has nothing to do with what a _value_ is.  This has to do with
whether you pass whatever-a-value-is or wherever-whatever-is-a-value-is
whenever you pass an argument to a function.  (Call it the Shakira
theory. :)"    [Erik Naggum in cllisp über call-by-value und call-by-reference]