Gentlemen:
For the record, I combined Carsten and Nick's suggestion, so here is
what I now have in my init file, and it works:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(eval-after-load 'org
'(progn
(add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
'("m" "#+begin_src emacs-lisp\n?\n#+end_src" ""))
(add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
'("j"
"#+begin_quote\n||Dr|Cr|\n|-\n|?|$||\n|||$|\n#+end_quote"
""))))
#+end_src
Carsten, I appreciate the explanation for why my quoting didn't work. I
will now be adding many more of these Easy Templates to my init file,
they are a great shortcut.
Regards,
At Wed, 23 May 2012 15:35:23 +0200,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On May 23, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > you need to quote the entire form, i.e. the progn;
> >
> > (eval-after-load 'org
> > '(progn
> > (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> > '("m" "#+begin_src emacs-lisp\n?\n#+end_src"))
> > (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> > '("j"
> > "#+begin_quote\n||Dr|Cr|\n|-\n|?|$||\n|||$|\n#+end_quote"))))
> >
> > This is because the entire form is stored for execution after loading org -
> > but in your case it was
> > evaluated immediately...
>
> ....
>
> so what happens is that the result of the second add-to-list command (that
> result is the extended list) is stored and then evaluated after org.el is
> loaded. So at that point in time, Emacs tries to evaluate
>
>
> (("j" ......
>
> Which is of cause not valid because the first element in that list `("j" ...'
> is not a function.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> > On May 23, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Daniel E. Doherty wrote:
> >
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I really like the Easy Template facility, and would like to add some of
> >> my own. However, I am having trouble with the elisp syntax. I would
> >> like to add a couple in my init file, but am having no luck. Here is
> >> what I have now:
> >> =========================
> >> (eval-after-load 'org
> >> (progn
> >> (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> >> (list '("m" "#+begin_src emacs-lisp\n?\n#+end_src")))
> >> (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> >> (list '("j"
> >> "#+begin_quote\n||Dr|Cr|\n|-\n|?|$||\n|||$|\n#+end_quote")))))
> >> =========================
> >> Which yeilds:
> >> =========================
> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function (("j" "#+begin_quote
> >> ||Dr|Cr|
> >> |-
> >> |?|$||
> >> |||$|
> >> #+end_quote")))
> >> =========================
> >>
> >>
> >> I have also tried this:
> >> =========================
> >> (eval-after-load 'org
> >> (progn
> >> (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> >> '("m" "#+begin_src emacs-lisp\n?\n#+end_src"))
> >> (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> >> '("j"
> >> "#+begin_quote\n||Dr|Cr|\n|-\n|?|$||\n|||$|\n#+end_quote"))))
> >> =========================
> >> Which spits out a similar error. I am quoting the list, so I don't
> >> understand why elisp is interpteting it as a function. In the first
> >> case, I even quote it twice.
> >>
> >> Any help?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Dan Doherty
> >>
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> >
> >
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>
