From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:05 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <873c5jug73.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87659snbd8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87llin98sc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87hdtbtnsg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87brjhwe2c.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcuXM-0006W7-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:18:44 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcuXM-0006tl-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:18:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuYg-0001hy-Rj for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuXC-0000q5-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuXB-0000pJ-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuX8-0000p8-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcuVl-0003SG-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BcuVl-0001by-E8; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:05 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 21 Jun 2004 11:38:05 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25190 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25190 > I have a general idea now, but, what's the difference in meaning > between \#& and \&? Between \#N and \N? \#& is short for (number-to-string \&). There is no real difference between \,(\#&) and \,(\&) since the result is used with prin1-to-string, but \,(1+ \&) would throw an error. Did you mean string-to-number?