Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: [continuation, prior message sent unfinished by accident]
> but with your other hints, I now understand the problem. I wanted to see > how the parse tree looks like, so I printed it out (I did not know about > the existance of 'print-circle' then, but it was set to nil). Then I > tried to experiment with the printed representation, but the #1 syntax > gave me an error. > > When I set 'print-circle' to t, the printed result looks like described > in the info page, with elements like > > [...] :parent #66#)))) #67=(headline [...] So it was all about the difference between printed representation and the actual list object, and the special syntax when 'print-circle' is nil that I could not find in the manual. Thanks for the tips, I have to read more about circular lists in Emacs Lisp, ,first time I see them in action. -- cheers, Thorsten